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Description: | A lead alloy toy pocket-watch from the post-medieval period. The watch is a circular convex disc with a diameter of 44.7mm, measuring 1.6mm thick and with a flat edge. The reverse is undecorated. The front face has a beaded edge, a band of ornate foliage decoration in relief and then another row of beading before the clock face in the centre. The numerals are Roman and are enclosed within raised bands. The inner face is plain, and the hands are cast in relief, set at six o'clock. There is extensive damage round the top of the disc. There was probably a suspension loop above the 12 but this area is so damaged it is impossible to tell if there was on this example or not. Part of the centre of the face is also missing. Geoff Egan writes in the Finds Research Group Datasheet 10 "Base Metal Toys", that the earliest lead alloy toy watches were probably made in the middle of the seventeenth century, and that the single hand set to six o'clock is typical. This example is probably late seventeenth or eighteenth century in date.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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