bow. There were no clockmaker's tools." Eberman's life had spanned Lancaster County's "golden age" of clock- making. Nearly all the clockmakers of note, from Rudy Stoner, to his own grandchild, George David Eberman, had been at work during his lifetime. Unfortunately, no portrait is known to exist and

Possible Joseph Gorgas Tall Case Clock Located by Stacy B. C. Wood, Jr. Certified Clockmaker I was recently engaged by a local moving firm to prepare a "rare Grandfather's clock" for shipment to the West Coast. While making arrangements, I inquired as to the maker and was informed it was Joseph

may be, he comes off second best, because he surely was not the first to apply it. Indeed, a Dutch family named Fromanteel, who had been making clocks in England for some years, sent one son to Holland to work with Huyghens for a while, and upon his return, they introduced the first pendulum clocks in