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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy watch key, sub-square in plan and flat in profile, embossed with the makes's name: E QUICK / ST IVES / CORNWALL on one side, and WATCH MAKER / 3 / JEWELLER on the opposite side. The number '3' refers to the size of the winding shaft that it fits on to. The protruding spur above the body of the key is missing its suspension loop.Bailey (1993) illustrates a similar example on page 27, No.6 which is dated from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century.Edwin Quick of Fore Street, St Ives is listed as a watchmaker in Kellys Directory 1902-1939, but not before that time, and he is not listed in the 1948 Telephone Directory, but he may just not have had a telephone.
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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