WATCHPAPERS – Cambridgeshire
Collection of ten 19th century papers.
£45.00
A good county selection of original watchpapers, now rarely available. largest 55 mm diameter.
Issuers include: J DANN, Wisbech (two different examples); G and I FILLINGER, Ely; J FURLEY, Huntingdon; HAZELWOOD Bros, Wisbech; HEALD, Wisbech; R HULL, Newmarket; E SHILLING, Milton; William SMITH, March; and VURLEY, Wisbeach.
For more information on this fascinating subject see my illustrated article on ‘Watchpapers’ in the April 2001 issue of Antique Collecting and my British Museum ‘Dingwall-Beloe’ lecture on the importance of ephemera in general. This was published in three parts in Antiquarian Horology, December 2006, March and June 2007.
All used, all readable, one with minor edge losses.
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Description
A good county selection of original watchpapers, now rarely available. largest 55 mm diameter.
Issuers include: J DANN, Wisbech (two different examples); G and I FILLINGER, Ely; J FURLEY, Huntingdon; HAZELWOOD Bros, Wisbech; HEALD, Wisbech; R HULL, Newmarket; E SHILLING, Milton; William SMITH, March; and VURLEY, Wisbeach.
For more information on this fascinating subject see my illustrated article on ‘Watchpapers’ in the April 2001 issue of Antique Collecting and my British Museum ‘Dingwall-Beloe’ lecture on the importance of ephemera in general. This was published in three parts in Antiquarian Horology, December 2006, March and June 2007.
All used, all readable, one with minor edge losses.
