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I am cutting the letter out of the newspaper now! Big Grin
 
Posts: 2625 | Location: Northeast Texas in the USA | Registered: November 20, 2003
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Nice watch Dave, BTW, H.Samuel is a large chain of Retail jewellers.
(petrol's also around £1.13 per litre now)!

Could I also offer a word of caution regarding hallmarks!
The only guaranteed date period any hallmark will give anyone, is the date that Any precious metal article was 'Assayed' - Not manufactured.

A casemaker can make a case, put his mark on it, and have it sit in a safe through generations of successors.
The Only legal requirement to have a precious metal article assayed(in the UK anyway) is if that article is to be retailed to Joe public.

Unless someone can come up with another casemaker using CH incursive, or a member of the same family generations further on, I'm still sticking with my original opinion of early / Mid 1800's for that case.
The movement is another matter, and could well have been cased up around the period Dick suggested.

Best regards

John
 
Posts: 1282 | Location: Northern England, United Kingdom | Registered: January 07, 2006
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