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"Silver" pocket watch - 6/17/2008 3:32:49 PM    privvydigger   Posts: 504 Joined: 7/16/2006 From: Heart of the Coal Regions Status: offline This came out the other day and the owner didn't want it. Today I saw the friend who we gave a Teapot from here privvy.  We usually try to give the owner something nice especially if it isn't what were looking for and may have connections to the house. The beautiful Teapot, cobalt blue decorative patter with a unique handle(looked like a trumphet) Anyway, her Great Grandfather built both homes.  So she was quite pleased that it most probably was her Great Grandmothers Teapot.  We dug a church and the first Reverand of the church as we were told before digging was a prolific writer and novelist, we dug a large cobalt blue Master ink and an Umbrella Ink out of the old stone liner.  The women from the Church Historical Society was looking at them in the grass and asked who gets those......I said with a smile "the church gets everything" we just thanked them for digging.  anyway cool watch I wonder whats inside as it is very heavy enjoy privvydigger Attachment (1) _____________________________ gtr'dug Post #: 1

RE: "Silver" pocket watch - 6/17/2008 3:33:25 PM    privvydigger   Posts: 504 Joined: 7/16/2006 From: Heart of the Coal Regions Status: offline pic _____________________________ gtr'dug (in reply to privvydigger) Post #: 2

RE: "Silver" pocket watch - 6/17/2008 3:35:06 PM    privvydigger   Posts: 504 Joined: 7/16/2006 From: Heart of the Coal Regions Status: offline and the pic silver is still visibly what were the inner parts made from? Attachment (1) _____________________________ gtr'dug (in reply to privvydigger) Post #: 3

RE: "Silver" pocket watch - 6/17/2008 7:53:39 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3615 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: online Cool watch,I would think the workings would be made of brass.I'm not a watch expert through _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to privvydigger) Post #: 4

RE: "Silver" pocket watch - 6/17/2008 10:08:58 PM    privvydigger   Posts: 504 Joined: 7/16/2006 From: Heart of the Coal Regions Status: offline I hoping it's full of silver and gold coins and a few diamonds and a pearl no an emerald from the isle. _____________________________ gtr'dug (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 5

RE: "Silver" pocket watch - 6/17/2008 10:20:08 PM    RICKJJ59W Posts: 3615 Joined: 3/8/2007 From: Lehigh Valley US of A Status: online Hey you never know what people did or why they did it.Thats why I love digging, they could have tossed any thing under the sun in them holes. _____________________________ My Web Page.Lots of pix. Dig story's published in Antique Bottle & Glass Collector. New story added 9/08 www.19thcenturybottlediggers.com Digs in action. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pitpirate/ (in reply to privvydigger) Post #: 6

RE: "Silver" pocket watch - 6/18/2008 12:16:07 AM    aridice53   Posts: 150 Joined: 2/20/2008 From: Huntsville, AL Status: offline I don't know about yall, but, if I dropped my watch in the privy back then, it would stay there til someone else dug it out!!!  (in reply to RICKJJ59W) Post #: 7

RE: "Silver" pocket watch - 6/18/2008 6:13:32 AM    privvydigger   Posts: 504 Joined: 7/16/2006 From: Heart of the Coal Regions Status: offline well one thing for sure it wasn't during the depression _____________________________ gtr'dug (in reply to aridice53) Post #: 8

RE: "Silver" pocket watch - 6/18/2008 9:25:12 AM    capsoda Posts: 7863 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: online Nope not the depression. It was a lever set so it was made in the latter part of the 1800s. The innereds were brass with a little copper and polished steel. If it is solid silver it is a good find. Just punch the innereds out cause they are eat up and useless. They come out through the face. When you get them out post some good close ups of the case. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to privvydigger) Post #: 9

RE: "Silver" pocket watch - 6/18/2008 12:47:16 PM    privvydigger   Posts: 504 Joined: 7/16/2006 From: Heart of the Coal Regions Status: offline inside pics Attachment (1) _____________________________ gtr'dug (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 10

RE: "Silver" pocket watch - 6/18/2008 3:06:17 PM    capsoda Posts: 7863 Joined: 11/15/2005 From: Seminole,Alabama, USA Status: online 1870s key wind lever set. If the case is solid silver you can clean it in acid with out hurting it. _____________________________ Warren Diggin down in Dixie, USA Work is for people who don't dig bottles President, Panhandle Cruisers http://www.panhandlecruisers.org/ (in reply to privvydigger) Post #: 11

RE: "Silver" pocket watch - 6/18/2008 9:28:45 PM    vabottles69   Posts: 89 Joined: 3/12/2008 Status: offline What type of acid? Just wondering for future ref..... _____________________________ VA bottles- (in reply to capsoda) Post #: 12

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