Columbus

[ted steuernagel]

Jeweler information on a 18s Columbus it has L. Sumner 114 Lake St Elmira, NY Any help would be great

[ted steuernagel]

Jeweler information on a 18s Columbus it has L. Sumner 114 Lake St Elmira, NY Any help would be great

[Kent]

If you are looking for information about L. Sumner in Elmira, NY, there was a Fredonia Non-Magnetic 15-jewel watch privately labeled for "Bull Sumner" of Walden, NY (or perhaps "Sumner of Bull-Walden, NY - Its hard to tell from the listing. I've never heard of it, but it could be a small town). There may have been a connection - data from "American Pocket Watches Beginning to End...1830-1980, Identification and Price Guide," Roy Ehrhardt & William Meggers, Jr., Heart of America Press, Kansas City, MO, 1987 (commonly referred to as "The Gold Book" - A new edition is still in print, see Heart of America Press (http://www.hoapress.com)).

If you'd like to know about the watch itself, it'd really help if you could post a picture of the movement. Many Columbus grades can only be identified by their damaskeening patterns in conjunction with their jewel counts, plate finish and other markings. In trying to open the watch, you might find the information in "How To Open A Pocket Watch Case" (http://www.knology.net/~ksinger/opencase.txt) useful.

A digital camera would be very helpful. For an open-face, screw back & bezel watch you can get good results by placing the movement on a flatbed scanner. A hunting-case movement, or an open-face movement in a hinged case would have to be removed from the case for this to work. Otherwise, its back to the camera.

Larry Jones has written up a useful article on Image Posting (http://www.larjones.com/data/imagehelp.html), which may be helpful.

Or, when you click on the Reply button, at the lower right-hand corner of the bottom post in a thread, the Reply To: box that opens has a toolbar at its top. The right-hand icon on the toolbar is a paperclip. Clicking upon the paperclip icon will open a box that allows you to select a picture file to attach to your post. Use the Browse button to navigate to the location in which the picture file resides on your disk drive and select it. Since this only permits one picture per reply, you can reply once for each picture.

If you have a problem posting the picture(s), you can attach it (them) to an e-mail to me (you can get my email address by clicking on my name in the upper left-hand corner of this post and viewing my Public Profile) and I'll post it (them) for you.

Its also helpful if you can post all the markings that are on the movement (the "works") in case they can't be seen in the picture(s).

Good luck,
Kent

That guy down in Georgia :smile: