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W.A.Watkins 59 Carey Street Lincolns Inn London. c 1880 Stock No. 3393
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W.A.Watkins 59 Carey Street Lincolns Inn London. c 1880
An attractive small wall dial timepiece, the flat 8” diameter painted iron dial signed ‘W.A.Watkins, 59 Carey Street Lincolns Inn London’, the fusee movement faced by brass hands, in a mahogany case with turned dial surround, and cast brass bezel and sight ring.
Stock No. 3393
W.A.Watkins is recorded working at this address in the late nineteenth century. The clock however bears all the hallmarks of manufacture by either John Walker or possibly J.J.Stockall, and so Watkins was probably the retailer.