pocket catalogs

[Greg Frauenhoff]

Pocket catalogs and price lists are one of my favorite bits of ephemera.

Here's a little piece from Illinois.
http://members.aol.com/gfrauen/spring.jpg

Merry Christmas,

Greg

[Greg Frauenhoff]

Pocket catalogs and price lists are one of my favorite bits of ephemera.

Here's a little piece from Illinois.
http://members.aol.com/gfrauen/spring.jpg

Merry Christmas,

Greg

[Kent]

Hamilton's 1916 Time Book leaves no doubt that Hamilton is indeed "The Railroad Timekeeper Of America"

Front (http://www.knology.net/~ksinger/1916_time_book_cover_f.jpg)

Back (http://www.knology.net/~ksinger/1916_time_book_cover_b.jpg)

[This message has been edited by Kent (edited 12-23-2001).]

[terry hall]

Greg, Nice....haven't seen that one.

Kent....boy it is sad that Hamilton went downhill sooooo fast. :wink: :wink: :wink: Why it was 1906 (http://web.infoave.net/~ehall/1906hamtbfrt.jpg)that they were the Time Keeper of the World! This is noted on the rear cover. (http://web.infoave.net/~ehall/1906hamtbrear.jpg)

In 1908, this was moved to the Front Cover. (http://web.infoave.net/~ehall/1908hamtbfrt.jpg) It is also noted on the Rear cover. (http://web.infoave.net/~ehall/1908hamtbrear.jpg)

Keep em coming....sure is fun to learn!

[This message has been edited by terry hall (edited 12-23-2001).]

[Kent]

Terry:

Maybe Hamilton discovered that the rest of the world was fairly unsophisticated when it came to railroad watches. There are a few watches used in Turkish railroad service now being offered on eBay. Aside from their dials, they're fairly plain-Jane lower-jeweled Omegas without adjustment marking or micrometric regulators. Even the Brits in India and the Aussies down under felt that those high-jeweled model `92's were too much watch for railway service and ordered 15-jewel grades. On British railways, such watches as were used tended to be 7-jewel affairs - their stations were close enough together, with clocks located where the engine drivers could see them so that they didn't need highly adjusted watches (I met Doug Sinclair and Greg Frauenhoff at the 1996 Rockford Railroad Timekeeping Seminar where the British system was explained). Only North Americans (and especially those in the U.S.) seemed to have developed the taste for high-jeweled, highly adjusted watches for their railroad time service.

Kent

[Greg Frauenhoff]

Here's the cover of an old Rockford catalog.
http://members.aol.com/gfrauen/rkcatalog.jpg

Incidentally, Tom McIntyre and I are planning to write an article for the NAWCC Bulletin on the high grade early Rockford watches. These would be those marked "19 Ruby Jewels", "15 Ruby Jewels", "19 Ruby", "15 Ruby", "15 R", and "17 R". Any info (serial numbers, etc.) on such mvts would be appreciated. Also, we would be very interested copies of any Rockford catalogs or price lists from the years 1883 to 1888.

Thanks,

Greg