FALL BACK

This is the fourth day follow, even though our bodies may still be "running" on Daylight Savings. (That's another subject.)

Anyway ... being that "time" is on our minds, we searched for Bullis books about clocks. Only one on antiques popped up, one that we posted a couple years ago, titled:

The Lure of the Antique

by Walter A. Dyer (1878-1943)

Published in New York by The Century Company, 1921

FYI, here's the link to that post:
http://bullisbookchronicles.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-lure-of-antique.html

If you're interested in antique clocks, this book has several pages of information on grandfather clocks and shelf clocks, as well as nine illustrations.

So if you have time on your hands (as well as your mind), you're invited to stop by the Bullis Room and spend some of it with this book.

PS: This book also contains "a handy guide for the determination of age, style, maker, genuineness, and value" of a wide variety of antiques.

WORLD POST DAY

Did you know that today, October 9, is officiallyWorld Post Day?  (We didn't!  Until a few minutes ago.)

Universal Postal Union (UPU) was established way back in 1874 in Bern, Switzerland, at the start of the global communications revolution.  In 1969 at the UPU Congress in Tokyo, October 9th was declared World Post Day, and it's been recognized internationally ever since.

Here in the Bullis Room today, we silently paid homage to World Post Day as we looked over the statistics for this blog. We are privileged to have visitors from Lithuania, Germany, Ukraine, Canada, China, United Kingdom, Russia, Kazakhstan, Poland ... and so many other countries as well as countless villages, towns, cities and states within our own borders.

So to all of our readers, near and far, we say "thank you" for visiting us here on this blog. And let's all be grateful for the global communications revolution back in 1874 as well as all the advancements in this field over the past 139 years.