Pocket watch in a removable silver case with black silk ribbon and winding key. The watch face has black Roman numerals under glass.
watches
silver (metal)
glass (material)
WATCH, POCKET
Paper label: "Willm Bond/successor to Jos.Pope/WATCH & CLOCK MAKER/No 36/Marlborough Street/BSOTON/A variety of Watches for sale"
Mechanism: "Sam. Toulmin / Strand / London / 2466"
Inside case; Full set of British silver hallmarks with a lion passant / crowned leopard head / maker's mark "RP" / date letter "h" for the years 1763-1764" (Printed, engraved, hallmarked)
2256
Toulmin, Samuel (Watchmaker)
William, Bond (Retailer)
London, England; Boston, Massachusetts
2 1/2 x 2 x 1 1/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
1954.164ab
Massachusetts (United States)
London (Greater London, England, United Kingdom)
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
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