 Hello, I'm John Lewis, I'm the General Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, and the thing I would like from our collections in my Christmas stocking is this beautiful clock that sits in my office, but used to sit in our library. And the reason I love it is because it tells so many stories that are sort of intertwined with what the Antiquaries is about and who we are. The clock was built in the 1650s by Thomas Nifton of Lothbury in London, just behind where the Bank of England now is. And it would originally have stood in the hallway of a big house in the city, and the lovely bell would have sounded out the hours for a household, it's weight driven, and it's only got one hand, it's only got one hand, and considering it's age and date it's quite accurate. One of the other things I love about it is that if you open up the clock, these are the things here, the dial face here, this whole face, is made out of reused brass, and on the inside of this face are deeply engraved lettering, and we think that this piece of brass is taken from a church monument dating to about 1610, so a monument to somebody who was buried in a church, and then presumably during the protectory in the 1650s, Puritans were going round the sack in churches taking out any sort of ground things, and they probably round sack the church, took out the brass monuments and sold them off a scrap, and Thomas Niffdon bought the scrap and turned it into this beautiful, beautiful object. And it's exfini rare, very charming, and I love it to bits.