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Thursday 24 November 2005
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This week on Collectors: synchronise your watches - we meet a passionate clock-watcher; we tip a cap to our convict past; and Gordon gets behind the wheel.
But first up, Justin Murphy, out in the auction rooms with a little trinket box. We’ll find out who’s the auction whiz kid of the series at the end of the show.
Now it’s time for this week’s passionate collector. Years ago, Graham Mulligan took a clock apart, just to see how it worked. Now he won’t say if he got that first one back together, but he admits to having a complete fascination with clocks ever since. Today he has become such an expert that he now designs, builds, repairs and of course collects clocks of all kinds. When we heard about his collection, we just had to find out what makes this inspired collector tick!
We will be generous this week with this week’s Mystery Object and give you a clue...its not a clock! Last one of this year remember, so if you get this one right you will be the official carry over champion until next year! Good luck!
We look at another Museum Piece with Niccole Warren, our resident collection specialist. This piece is a vital part of our convict heritage and very rare.
Over to Gordon and this week he is putting the pedal to the metal in one of Australia’s best motoring museums. What makes this museum so special is that most of the cars are on loan from private collectors, so it’s like sneaking a peak at the best pieces from the best private collections in Australia! All in one room! Right now the theme is “fabulous and French” and after that it’ll be “Jaguar - grace, space, pace” but when Gordon visited, it was “American classics”.
And just before we go...we’ve put together a compile of highlights from the past year of Collectors. So here are some of the gems, some of the oddities, some of the rarities that we passionate collectors devote our waking hours to tracking down.
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