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Description: | A slightly corroded and bent post-medieval openwork lead-alloy toy watch. The object is flat, circular and unifacially moulded in low relief. Within a beaded border is an openwork design of a lozenges within a circle with a scroll on either side; this design is repeated equally four times. The inner part of the border design touches the chapter ring which is marked with the Roman hours I-XII with pellet half-hour marks. The dial centre is enclosed within another pellet border; this centre is again openwork with a scroll in each quarter, divided by central cross. The cross has 3 pellets at its centre; one in the centre and one adjoining on the vertical arms; these pellets may indicate that these lines represent the hands of the clock. On the outer edge directly above XII on the face is a loop imitating the attachment loop of a pocket watch. This is now bent. The toy measures 57.8mm (length) x 50.4mm (width) x 2.0mm (thickness) and weighs 10.01g.Forsyth and Egan (2005, 338) date toy watches to c.1625 to 1800 AD.
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