Silver pocket watch [object] / [signed] A. Bach.
Accession number:
PML 352835
Published:
London : A. Bach, ca. 1881.
Description:
1 watch
Credit:
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Notes:
Engraved inside back of case: "Revd. C.L. Dodgson, Ch[rist]. Ch[urch]. Oxford."
"Says it belonged to Thomas Erwin at time of 1932 Columbia exhibition. Lot 89 Erwin sale, Ritter-Hopson Galleries, New York, 15 Dec. 1932, dates it [1881]"--Houghton checklist.
Housed in mahogany case.
Provenance:
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson; Thomas Erwin; from the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
Summary:
Silver open-face, key-winding pocket chronometer, with key (4 x 1.5 cm).
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