This beautiful drawing was found tucked inside a 1951 BULLETIN.

THIS WAS SCANNED...IF PHOTOGRAPHED SHARPLY...IT WOULD MAKE A SUPER SIGN, PLAQUE OR WHATEVER!

PRINTED ON ENAMEL PAPER...the PRINT IS VERY SHARP...1 and 3/4" ROUND.

Daniel

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Is the small drawing some of Col. George Townsend's work? In the mid- to late 1960's he would be at Regionals with similar sized drawings on onion skin paper that made excellent watch papers. His drawings were hand drawn since computers weren't doing everything in those days. His book "American Railroad Watches" has a similar drawing on the front cover. I have copy no.498 of the original printing with his autograph.

Hello John:

The Col. Townsend could have done the drawing for the Convention. He was a close friend of Dr. Bundens...who was as well as Townsend...one of the luminaries.

Col. Townsend and Dr. Bundens were close friends. When the Col. passed away he left much of his collection to Dr. Bundens. Attending Chapter 1 meetings the Col. often stayed at Dr. Bundens home in Woodbury, NJ.

Dr. Bundens and I were friends; he was a surgeon and donated his skill to the Shriner's Hospital for children that was just a few blocks from my home. He often came over to buy many of my horological finds.

The Col. while knowing me, were more or less acquaintances, he often helped me with early watch parts that I needed to complete some real early find.

He would spend much time down on Jeweler's Row in Philadelphia buying and recording watches and their serial numbers. At one of the watch dealers that sold me a great deal of movements, Townsend would spend hours recording watches for his study and records. He also bought quite a few.

I did have an opportunity to meet the Colonel's wife, before their divorce, I seem to remember her name as Helen.

Some place in the back of the Pocket Watch Discussion pages I presented a picture of Dr. Bundens and his wife Dorothy; she was pulling the ticket for a 50-50 cash prize. We also were members of a now defunct ***** Chapter in Cherry Hill, NJ...I think the Chapter number was either 93 or 95.

John, Daniel

The cover of George Townsend's book is sent attached. It shows the same view of an arabic dialled Hamilton 940 that the Hamilton book shows. Daniel's drawing shows a roman dial - but it still could be the work of George Townsend.

Scans of two of George Townsend's hand drawn watch papers are also sent. They are from engravings and are beautiful pieces of art work. Each has George Townsend's signature on the reverse side. Obviously the great artistic (industrial design) aspect of watches appealed to George - and to many others of us.

John Scott

The watch papers.