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Here is an Illinois leather wallet, or card holder

 
Posts: 827 | Location: Bloomington, Illinois in the USA | Registered: September 29, 2008
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one side of the open sides

 
Posts: 827 | Location: Bloomington, Illinois in the USA | Registered: September 29, 2008
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...and the other side

 
Posts: 827 | Location: Bloomington, Illinois in the USA | Registered: September 29, 2008
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an Illinois mainspring

 
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The other side of the little envelope is still sealed after all these years.

 
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Here is a Hampden ad

 
Posts: 827 | Location: Bloomington, Illinois in the USA | Registered: September 29, 2008
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Here is a curious little watch insert of the calendar for the Columbian Expo. 1893

 
Posts: 827 | Location: Bloomington, Illinois in the USA | Registered: September 29, 2008
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Here's the other side of the calendar

 
Posts: 827 | Location: Bloomington, Illinois in the USA | Registered: September 29, 2008
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Waltham mainspring tin

 
Posts: 827 | Location: Bloomington, Illinois in the USA | Registered: September 29, 2008
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This is the top of the tin

 
Posts: 827 | Location: Bloomington, Illinois in the USA | Registered: September 29, 2008
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This Rockford ashtray is pretty beat up, but I feel sure it's not a reproduction

 
Posts: 827 | Location: Bloomington, Illinois in the USA | Registered: September 29, 2008
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Here is the bottom.

 
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Not a watch object, exactly, but interesting: an early Chicago and Alton Railroad pass.

 
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Here's the obverse side.

 
Posts: 827 | Location: Bloomington, Illinois in the USA | Registered: September 29, 2008
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Here is a later pass.

 
Posts: 827 | Location: Bloomington, Illinois in the USA | Registered: September 29, 2008
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The obverse of this pass:

 
Posts: 827 | Location: Bloomington, Illinois in the USA | Registered: September 29, 2008
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Waltham watchmaker's mainspring measuring gauge

 
Posts: 3370 | Location: Okotoks Alberta Canada | Registered: November 22, 2002
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Larry,
Now THAT is really interesting!

Nice item!

Lots of great stuff we got here.

Thank you everyone.

I have posted this one before, but it is my FAVORITE, but then again, anything Lissauer is Special to me.


Sheila


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Posts: 3094 | Location: La Plata, Maryland U.S.A. | Registered: May 22, 2004
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This is what's inside.


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Posts: 3094 | Location: La Plata, Maryland U.S.A. | Registered: May 22, 2004
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That is really cool! I like the ad art from the 19th century. I heard some years back that someone found a cache of old Illinois Watch Co. advertising posters in a garage or some place and they were sold off in notime. I would have liked to have seen those.
 
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Steve

It looks like your ashtray was of a Robert T. Green who was born in 1868 in Indiana, in the 1900 census he is listed as a jeweler & lived in Sims Indiana which is also in Grant county where the store was.

Tom
 
Posts: 5107 | Location: New Mexico in the USA | Registered: January 27, 2007
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Thanks once again, Tom. Your information is always fascinating.
 
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Postcard Lunch Hour at the Elgin National Watch Company factory 1929.

 
Posts: 3370 | Location: Okotoks Alberta Canada | Registered: November 22, 2002
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Sure have enjoyed everyones postings. You just don't see this kind of stuff every day. So I will share one of my favorites an Elgin Father Time watch repair sign.

 
Posts: 38 | Location: Zuzax, New Mexico USA | Registered: July 07, 2007
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Seth Thomas Watches card

 
Posts: 3370 | Location: Okotoks Alberta Canada | Registered: November 22, 2002
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Seth Thomas Watches card reverse side.

 
Posts: 3370 | Location: Okotoks Alberta Canada | Registered: November 22, 2002
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Keystone Watch Case Company advertising card, L. Walldorf, Rochester N.Y.

 
Posts: 3370 | Location: Okotoks Alberta Canada | Registered: November 22, 2002
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Keystone Watch Case Company advertising card reverse side.

 
Posts: 3370 | Location: Okotoks Alberta Canada | Registered: November 22, 2002
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Hamilton advertisement for No.4 Rigid Bow Case

 
Posts: 3370 | Location: Okotoks Alberta Canada | Registered: November 22, 2002
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Postcard of Elgin Building at 1939-40 New York's World Fair

 
Posts: 3370 | Location: Okotoks Alberta Canada | Registered: November 22, 2002
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Larry

Here is some info. on Walldorf if you are interested, it is from the 1881 city directory.

Also he was born about 1832 in Germany & in 1880 was married to Anna & they had a 3 sons & one daughter. Two sons were opticians & probably worked at dad's store.

Tom

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Posts: 5107 | Location: New Mexico in the USA | Registered: January 27, 2007
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Hamilton 4992B sweep second military pocket watch.

 
Posts: 3370 | Location: Okotoks Alberta Canada | Registered: November 22, 2002
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I really like that Hamilton ad. Did they sell those commercially after the war?
Anyhow, here is an Elgin stock certificate.

 
Posts: 827 | Location: Bloomington, Illinois in the USA | Registered: September 29, 2008
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