{"id":14363,"date":"2024-01-23T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/?p=14363"},"modified":"2024-01-15T09:10:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T15:10:15","slug":"unmarried-brothers-looking-for-an-heir-to-preserve-worlds-largest-collection-of-cuckoo-clocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/unmarried-brothers-looking-for-an-heir-to-preserve-worlds-largest-collection-of-cuckoo-clocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Unmarried\ud83d\udc8dBrothers Looking for an Heir to Preserve World\u2019s Largest Collection of Cuckoo Clocks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shield Insurance Blog<\/a> | Cuckoo Clocks | Shield Insurance Agency<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For five decades, Roman and Maz Piekarski have collected 750 intricate pendulum-driven clocks to display in their \u2018Cuckooland\u2019 museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as time ticks down on their careers, the siblings who have no children are now desperate to find someone to take on the metronomic menagerie before their deaths, according to Southwest News Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m 71 and Maz is 69, and we have not got anybody to leave it to,\u201d explained Roman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt would be wonderful if we could get someone to take it on. It really would be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They became fascinated with clocks as teens and went into the trade as apprentices after leaving school at 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The brothers from England traveled all around the world hunting down unique timepieces while trying to beat rival collectors from the U.S. and Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worlds Largest Collection of Cuckoo Clocks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

But after amassing the world\u2019s largest collection for their museum outside of Cheshire (see video below<\/em>), they now have no sons or daughters to leave it to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor the last four years, I have been making small inquiries as to finding somebody who could take it over,\u201d says Roman. \u201cBut I\u2019ve not found a single person who could come in and run it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are looking for a body to take Cuckooland on, hopefully keep it together for all time. We\u2019ve still got the time to teach people\u2014and we don\u2019t care where we have to go to do it\u2014so they\u2019ll know how to maintain, look after, give guided tours, whatever is necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They caught the bug for European cuckoo clocks after learning that they all came from a 25-mile patch of the Black Forest in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their finest pieces include one made for Frederick I, the Grand Duke of Barden in the 1860s, and another was brought aboard a Lancaster bomber in World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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