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1850-1870
GUSN-25504
Pocket watch form. Circular body w/ entwined border. Interior divided into two parts. One encloses a pink paper flower. Other side holds clock face painted on paper. Both sides covered w/ domed piece of glass. Blue beaded string attached to form watch chain.
watches
beading (edging pattern)
beading (process)
glass (material)
tin (metal)
beading (edging pattern)
beading (process)
Glass
Tin
Beaded
WATCH
Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),
Unknown
1.5 x 0.5 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman
1985.443
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