>From the BBC: "A pub clock dating back to the introduction of a tax on timepieces more than 200 years ago has sold at auction for £8,800. The George III Act of Parliament clock, decorated with hunting scenes, was made around 1797 and was once on the wall of a tavern. It was discovered in a house in Aberdeenshire, where it had been in the possession of a family for decades. It was sold at Shapes auction house in Edinburgh. Act of Parliament public service wall clocks, most commonly found in taverns, appeared after the introduction of a tax on all British clocks and watches in 1797. The result was many people simply stopped buying watches and clocks, and publicans tried to cash in by putting them up in their bars, hoping people would stay for a drink when they went in to check the time
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