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KEYSTONE Watch Case Co, Philadelphia, USA

Watch Case Opener, as presented at the Worlds’ Columbian Exposition, 1893.

Item 101763 Categories: Watches, Pocket Watches

£25.00

White metal case opener 1one inch in diameter, still attached to its original card tag as presented as a ‘souvenir’ of the important late Victorian exhibition held in Chicago in 1893, about which much can be found on the internet.

The Keystone watch Case Company, the largest of the American watch case companies and issuer of many advertising novelties, this one mainly advertising their new ‘non-pull-out bow’ watch cases intended to defeat pickpockets who would twist off bows in order to relieve owners of their watch.

A rare survival in its complete form as I have seen very few others. Not used but showing its age, the card tag creased and partly torn, but with no loss.

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White metal case opener 1one inch in diameter, still attached to its original card tag as presented as a ‘souvenir’ of the important late Victorian exhibition held in Chicago in 1893, about which much can be found on the internet.

The Keystone watch Case Company, the largest of the American watch case companies and issuer of many advertising novelties, this one mainly advertising their new ‘non-pull-out bow’ watch cases intended to defeat pickpockets who would twist off bows in order to relieve owners of their watch.

A rare survival in its complete form as I have seen very few others. Not used but showing its age, the card tag creased and partly torn, but with no loss.

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