Article: GRANDFATHER'S BACK TALL CLOCKS STILL PRIZED AS TIME PIECES AND FURNITURE.(Home)

Byline: Barbara Delaney Staff writer

Nearly every day for the past 18 years, someone has asked Paul Major the time of day.

Though the question makes him laugh, he says he invariably checks his watch to accommodate his questioner. But sometimes he answers, "What do I look like, Big Ben?"

Stuart McGreary says he's asked the same question, not just once, but "a dozen times a day."

Both men take time jokes in stride. They sell clocks - the kind strictly used to tell time - as well as others, like the tall, handsome grandfather clocks that the clockmakers say are making a comeback, not only as functional time pieces, but as accent pieces of ...

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