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Sheila Gilbert
05-05-2004, 05:15 AM
I seem to always get some really vintage boxes or cases with my Pocket Watch buys. They are usually a cardboard box for a wristwatch. Should I keep them, or toss em? Seems strange since a lot of people buy just boxes, that they would send my POCKET WATCH in a box like that.
Thanks,
Sheila
Sorry for the question but I didn't know where else to ask.
Sheila Gilbert
05-05-2004, 05:15 AM
I seem to always get some really vintage boxes or cases with my Pocket Watch buys. They are usually a cardboard box for a wristwatch. Should I keep them, or toss em? Seems strange since a lot of people buy just boxes, that they would send my POCKET WATCH in a box like that.
Thanks,
Sheila
Sorry for the question but I didn't know where else to ask.
Jon Hanson
05-05-2004, 05:25 AM
Keep it, as these were outside containers for the boxes that housed the watches. Trading material or storage or ............
Sheila Gilbert
05-05-2004, 06:17 AM
OK, Will do!
Thank you,
Sheila
4thdimension
05-05-2004, 03:42 PM
Sheila,
I got my daughter into collecting tins for several years because I got so many cool ones
every time I bought old watch parts. It wasn't just the watch and clock tins but the whole gamut from hair pomades to prophylactics,phono
needles.... Watch folk have always needed places to put extra parts. She has retired the collection and put them away but, I confess, I've pondered if she'd take an offer for them. I'd hoped the hobby would inspire more collecting but it never took off. She may be better off. For me, collecting is like breathing.
-Cort
Tim
05-05-2004, 05:38 PM
Sheila:

Keep them. They are collectible in their own right and have value.

-Tim
BrianC
05-05-2004, 07:13 PM
Keep them Sheila. I know a jeweler that sold Babe Ruth wrist watches in 1950 that came with a plastic baseball case. He threw the baseball cases away because they took up too much room in his case. Today these plastic baseballs are worth as much or more than the watch itself.
Brian C.
Sheila Gilbert
05-06-2004, 04:15 PM
Geee, thank you for the info. good idea to hold on to them huh?
I know what your mean about the breathing part, me too! and we never know when we could have a true gem huh?
Thank you for the posts!
Sheila