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June 16, 02:25 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 CHF
Lot Details
Description
JACOB FOGLE
A GOL𝓰D PAIR CASED WATCH WITH STOP SLIDE AND VARI-COLOUR GOLD AND ROCK CRYSTAL CHATELAINE, THE CASE AND CHATELAIN🅘E WITH PORTRAIT BUSTS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
CIRCA 1840
[ 黃金懷錶備停秒滑桿、配多色黃金鑲水晶腰鏈,錶殼及腰鏈飾喬治華盛頓頭像,年份約1840]
• Movement: key wound, gilded full plate English lever, three-arm balance, heavily engraved balance cock with diamond endstone, signed and numbered Jacob Fogle, Millegeville, Geo 15474, plain dust cap stamped LD & Co
• Dial: gold engin🍌e-turned with Roman chapter, 🐭vari-colour gold foliate surround and centre, subsidiary seconds at 6 o'clock
• Case: 18ct gold, outer engine turned with engraved portrait of George Washington and heavily chased and embossed bands, stop slide by 5 o'clock, inner case stamped H.W.O. and numbered 15474
• Chatelaine: gold, heavily chased and engraved vari-colou🤪r gold and rock crystal chatelaine, the centre of the rock crystal engraved with a portrait bust of George Washington
diameter 52 mm
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Antiquorum Geneva, The Sandberg Watch Collection, 31 March, 2001, lot 155
Jacob Fogle is previously unlisted as a watchmaker, however, he did place advertisements in the Federal Union Newspaper, Georgia, USA during the 1830s until the 1860s where he advertised, 'a new supply of watches, silver spoons, beed bags.....sword and plain canes, belt and pocket pistols.....and has constantly on hand a general assortment of articles in his line of business....Special attention will be given to watch repairing also to engraving court and notarial seals...Orders for Pianos will also be attended on moderate terms'
Interestingly and most notably, Milledgeville was the capital of Georgia fr🉐om 1804 to 1868, during💫 the American Civil War.