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NEW ORLEANS - The estate of a writer who chronicled Southern food and life will be auctioned next month to benefit a charity created to continue her philant
Author, design aficionado, and longtime
ELLE Decor contributor Julia Reed, who died last August at the age of 59, was well known for entertaining her readers and she was almost as well known for entertaining her guests. This week, the New Orleans auction house Neal Auction announced that starting February 5, many of the heirlooms, art, and
objets that filled Reed’s homes and enlivened her spirited gatherings will be up for sale.
A decorated journalist whose passions ran from politics to literature to food, Reed built her collection over the years from her travels around the world and in her native South.
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This watch holder is an elaborate clock when a pocket watch is put into the hole. An interesting, money-saving idea by an anonymous person in the 19th century.
There has always been a need to tell time, and early methods â sundials, hourglasses, water clocks or even large arrangements of stones and shadows â were not accurate.
The first mechanical clocks were invented in the 14th century, the pendulum clock in 1656, and by the 1700s there were many clocks in church towers that rang bells to tell citizens the time.
The small watch that could be carried by a person was developed after 1810. Then came pocket watches worn on a chain, and in 1868 the wristwatch was made. But there was still no affordable clock for home use.