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Please help to identify this

Posted By: wingchuntaiji
Posted Date: Dec 11, 2007 (12:29 PM)

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Hi! Judy,

Eventhough this is an asian art forum, I don't think that the members will complain about this discussion as Oriental collectors occsasionally run into pocket watches like that. Some of the pocket watches were even made in China during Qing Dynasty.

At certain time, there were Asian antiques that were rounded up in the U.S. and sent back for sale in Hong Kong and China. The market demand has been greater there, thus certain Orental items can command higher prices in Hong Kong and China. There had been some good Oriental items that could be found occasionally from garage sale, and in some antique shops in the U.S.

I used to collect pocket watch too. The above pocket watch looks like an early 1900's watch and it may be gold-filled. You 'll have to open the cover up and see who actually manufactured that. If you can give me the serial number, I probably can give you the estimated production time of the watch. I think "Stuyvesant" is only a model name, named after a famous place such as Manhattan, etc.

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