Here is a small Elgin parts box

...and the paper inside

Here is another parts box

The Paulson paper inside the above

Here's a neat Balance staff teaching aid.

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Brian C.

Here is my Ball clock.

As you can see, the seconds hand has fallen off, and I haven't figured out how to get it apart yet. Here is the simple working mechanism.

Some really nice stuff here!

This is one of my favorite pieces of true ephemera, something that was made to be disposable, that should not really have survived. Just a scrap of paper. Why the jeweler didn't toss the paper in the bin is a mystery. But here it is today.

Here is a paper found inside of my wife's great grandfather watch case certifying the case to be manufactured under James Boss Patent.

Here is South Bend Watch case for a grade 343.

I have a few of those movement shipping cases,that I have picked up over time. Here are some of the 18 size ones. Two Elgins,one Waltham and the heavy looking one isn't marked,but it looks to be solid silver.

One of the Elgin ones has the original tin box that it clamps inside.

Another Studebaker watch fob:

Ernie - I've always thought the watch cases that had the original papers still inside were a little bit of a wonder. I bought a watch once (and only once) of a brand I don't collect just to have a watch with the watch case paper still there inside.

And the movement holders! Oh I love them. I would say they are almost pure ephemera, being incidental to the product they were associated with and disposable and yet probably the most durable and potentially useful. I collect them (too many at this point) and use many of them to store watch parts, especially screws, jewels and the little collections of "desk scrap" that build up from time to time. Here's how I usually use them:



Quite useful! It's a lot easier to find the part you need when the container has glass top and bottom!

One movement holder piece of ephemera I especially like is this shipping box for watch holders. Personally I had never seen one before I acquired this one. Has anyone else seen one of these? Does anyone else have one of these? If so, pics plz.

An original South Bend Watch Co. Pin

Here's an Elgin sign on glass.

Ball Watch Company Silver tea spoons

Ball Advertisement for teaspoons from 1915 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Journal

I like this one quite a bit because it's a very early shot of Lissauer and Sondheim's store at 29 Maiden Lane. Long before any thought of my Pansy's were in the workings.

An Illinois wooden shipping box, that was on eBay

Crescent Watch Case Company Unused Watch Paper 1899

Another Crescent Watch Case Company paper from 1898

Here's a wooden pocket watch I have, (solid wood). It's the same on both sides. I've seen electric clocks with the same dial. I wonder what this block of wood was used for?

Brian

I have one of the electric clocks with that dial.

Tom

Here's a counter display for the Wadsworth Automatic Wind Watch

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Here's an Elgin sign on glass.

Steve, there was an antique store north of me that had a pair of wooden store front doors from a razed jewelry shop that had that Elgin sign on one glass pane, and a 'authorized Waltham watch sales and service shop' sticker on the other. They were definitely from the early 1900's, and the doors were priced at $2000.

The last time I went in there, I saw the doors, but noticed both glass panes were gone! Long story short, the antique mall owner decided to redecorate their stall, and knocked both doors over, breaking both panes. They were the ONLY panes of glass broken too!

Needless to say, the price dropped from $2000 to $500...and even THAT was a stretch. They were still identified as coming from a jewelry store, but there was nothing left to separate them from any other old set of door out there. Sad.

Regards! Mark

A bronze Hamilton advertising sign.

A Hamilton 992 movement holder for the Canadian market.