Kovels: Comic hankie goes for super price
Answer: Marks on Japanese pottery can be found in several colors, including red, green, blue, yellow, brown and black. Q: I have a very old cuckoo clock. It belonged to my great-great-great-grandparents. It must have been made in the early 1800s ...
Hosseini is Kearney's only master mender of timepieces
Amid grandfather clocks, wall clocks, mantel clocks, Seiko watches and a few dainty cuckoo clocks, Saadat Hosseini sits peering through a magnifying loop at a tiny hair spring that is just .02 millimeters in size, as tiny as the head of a pin. He ...
Time Center's Hosseini is Kearney's only, and one of Nebraska's few, master ...
Amid grandfather clocks, wall clocks, mantel clocks, Seiko watches and a few dainty cuckoo clocks, Saadat Hosseini sits peering through a magnifying loop at a tiny hair spring that is just .02 millimeters in size, as tiny as the head of a pin. He is ...
Festival of Trees brings in thousands
ZANESVILLE – This year, the Festival of Trees brought in $3,000 more than last year. The Festival of Trees, an annual fundraiser for the Zanesville-Muskingum County Chamber of Commerce, took place Friday and more than 200 items were auctioned off....
Festival of Trees auction slated for Friday
More than 200 decorated trees, wreaths, stockings and other entries and their incentives will be auctioned off from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday at the Muskingum County Welcome Center. Bids may be placed in person or by calling 740-450-1990. The auction ...
The last rhino: future bleak for the sole male northern white
Every evening he patrols the Kenyan savannah, glimpsing lions chasing down darting Thomson's gazelles, hearing the calls of red-chested cuckoos and, when there is a full moon, seeing the majestic, snow-capped peaks of Mount Kenya in the distance. But ...
We're right to be suspicious of fishy smells, researchers say
The US psychologists began by asking 61 men and women to answer two trivia questions. Half did the test in a booth that smelled of fish, half in fresh-smelling air. When asked to name a country famous for its cuckoo clocks, chocolate, banks and pen ...