watch inscription [Archive] - National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors Message Board

Barry G

12-09-2002, 04:08 AM

For those of you who have asked whether an inscription on a watch hurts the value at all:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=986618196

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Barry

My Online Pocket Watch Collection (http://barrygoldberg.net/watches.htm)

Barry G

12-09-2002, 04:08 AM

Greg Crockett

12-09-2002, 08:42 AM

Everything looks right regarding engraving style, etc. However, it's so hard to tell originality with these things that I would be reluctent to pay much w/o more.

Case in point: At a Civil War collectors' show I observed plenty of fakes, one vendor had a bunch of leather items for sale such as cartridge boxes, etc w/the name and unit of a confederate trooper on them. ONE PROBLEM: he was sloppy and cut the same name into an old .32 automatic pistol holster (an arm which was not around until after 1900)! The Civil War is an area w/in which fakes abound! While the watch looks right to me, be carefull!