![]() Watch the show next year to see if this appraisal makes it to television. Collectors pay thousands of dollars to own his work. The legacy of Stennes and his clocks lives on. I’m just glad not have been born into that family. Her employer was murdered as well and a man who sold clocks for Stennes killed himself. ![]() The killings didn’t stop! Elmer’s Daughter took her own life the following year by stabbing herself. There is also the question of how the intruders knew how to bypass the alarm. Many believed he had good reason, between Father murdering Mother and being written out of the will in favor of a new wife. She actually survived and claimed that Stennes’ son had been one of the shooters. The intruders shot him five times and his wife seven. Two gunman bypassed the alarm in his home and executed him in his own bed. “live by the sword, die by the sword”, Elmer had made enemies and he met his sword in October of 1975. Stennes was released in 1972 and he married again in 1973 (who would marry a guy that had killed his previous wife?). These clocks were branded “M.C.I.P.” for “Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Plymouth”, or with his strange sense of humor “made clocks in prison”. He served only 28 months of an 8 to 10 year sentence, but continued to make clocks while in prison. In addition to his name, he branded these clocks “O. He admitted to shooting her, but amazingly, while awaiting trial he was released on bail and continued to make clocks. In 1968, during an argument with his wife, he grabbed his. He was also a murderer and died in a hail of bullets at the hand of still another murderer! active in the 1940s through his death in 1975, he produced what are today, some of the most valuable and sought-after reproduction clocks. Elmer was a talented cabinet maker who specialized in creating excellent reproductions of the best and rarest early American clocks. The two repro clocks that were taped for TV were a girandole and a lyre clock, both made by Elmer Stennes in Weymouth, MA. My fellow appraiser John Delaney went on camera with two pieces from a nice collection of high end reproduction clocks. In all, five were appraised on camera plus I was interviewed by Antiques Roadshow Insider Magazine regarding a sixth clock. I appraised clocks at the Atlanta Roadshow on Saturday, where we saw a nice selection of pretty good clocks.
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