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This is not about a Telechron but about another fairly rare electric clock.  In "Sky Giant" of 1938 with Joan Fontaine, Richard Dix and Chester Morris, one of the Herman Miller clocks that was supposedly exhibited at a World's Fair, and is today very valuable, is seen several times in the Colonel's office.   Also it's interesting to see the young Joan Fontaine.

Don't look too close.

Not bad.  Looks good.

Send/ sell it to Cable Ulysses. 
One might be able to duplicate the trim with polymer molds.  Depends on how much time, money you are willing to put into the clock.
Really have to watch those Ebay sellers.  The problem is the omisions.
Crappy pictures, hides defects.  Cord wrapped around clock, hides damage.
I just bought an obviously unloved Jason on Ebay where they had the cord wrapped around the clock.  I asked for new pictures with the cord unwrapped.  The hidden parts were fine.  Will know for sure when I get the clock.

I just received this: www.ebay.com/itm/362950437142.  The seller waited four days to ship the clock, charged me double the postage, ignored my packing instructions, and packed the clock without enough padding.  The biggest issue, aside from the fact the the clock doesn't actually run, is that the fancy trim is missing at the bottom where the wrapped cord had been covering the case.  Careful scrutiny of the listing pictures sort of reveals this damage, but the listing text says nothing about it.  I realize that this is a rather rare model, so I am hesitant to quickly ship it back.  I paid a total of a bit under $50 for this clock.  What would you do?

Larry

The back door was a challenge.  I purchased a used metal hinged clock door on Ebay.  Could not use it as received because it was 1/8" too large in diameter.  So I cut off the very important hinge and attached it to a slightly modified Telechron metal back door disc.  I recycled the brass strip for part of the door closer and holder.  The knob, spacer etc from my parts bins. 
There are a lot of details which I have forgotten but that is the bulk of the work.  This Surrey is now in my livingroom, it is a keeper.  It matches rather well with our Queen Anne furniture. Plus since it has a 5" dial it makes reading the time easy.