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18 karat gold pocket watch with gold Roman numerals under glass. Front glass opens and back opens to plain gold face. Decorative engraving on back. Watch is accompanied by white cardboard box (not original) and gold key.
watches
glass (material)
WATCH, POCKET
top of box: " Susan Anne Livingston/Sedgwick/Julius Garfinckel & Co./WASHINGTON" Inside case: "33502 48698/36428/38475/40891/43426/46153/46401/46909/47938" Inside case: Two full sets of British hallmarks for 18 karat gold with a leopard head, crowned 18 / mark for the city of Chester, England / date letter "T" for the years 1815 to 1816 Outside casef: "SALS" Mechanism: "M. I. Tobias / LIVERPOOL / 1098 / CONVERTED BY / T. Martin & Co. 151 Regent Street, LONDON" (Ink, engraved, hallmarked)
Sedgwick, Susan Anne Livingston Ridley, 1788-1867
2225
M.I. Tobias & Co. (Watchmaker)
Liverpool and Chester, England (origin)
2 1/2 in (A); 1 3/8 in (B) x 1 3/4 in (A); 7/16 in (B) x 5/8 in (A); 1/8 in (B) (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Susan Norton
1990.5ab
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