I have an Elgin Shipping

[Wayne C. Anderson]

brass container that once housed an Elgin SN15324733, made in 1910, Grade 336, 18S, 17J, ofn5p movement. The container consists of a round double glass inner section, and a rectangler outer section. I was wondering if anyone has or knows if that movement still exists?
Does anyone collect matching shipping containers and the movements that they housed? Thanks

[Wayne C. Anderson]

brass container that once housed an Elgin SN15324733, made in 1910, Grade 336, 18S, 17J, ofn5p movement. The container consists of a round double glass inner section, and a rectangler outer section. I was wondering if anyone has or knows if that movement still exists?
Does anyone collect matching shipping containers and the movements that they housed? Thanks

[Tom McIntyre]

If I find a watch in the original container, I keep them that way.

The great bulk of these containers were discarded. Some packrat jewelers kept them and one sometimes will find a box with several hundred of them in the back of an old jewelry store.

Maybe we could make a database of all the empty ones we have, so that people could re-unite them with the original watches. You would not, of course, want to discard the original case on a watch to refit it to its shipping container. http://www.nawcc.org/ubb/eek.gif :biggrin:

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Tom McIntyre
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