[masraum]

Originally Posted by targa911S

I collect and wear vintage pocket watches. Bulova, Hamilton, Illinois Walthams and Elgins are my favorites. Most are 100 years old, still run and keep excellent time for their age.

Holy moly!!! Great to see that you're still around and checkin' in from time to time!

Unfortunately it doesn't run. One of these days I'll have to find a good watch guy to get it running. I'll never use it, but it would be nice for it to be functional.

Originally Posted by masraum

My wife brought a desk home from her aunt several years ago. It had probably been a very nice desk at some point, but it had been treated very poorly and practically disintegrated on the way back to our place. I eventually convinced my wife that there was no way that it could be restored, so we threw it out. I couldn't just put it out with the trash because parts were too big for the garbage men to take, so I broke it up. In the process, this popped out from somewhere.



Inside it was...



Which was interesting since it was protecting



It says 14kt, so I suspect it's solid, not filled or plated. It's fairly small (size 6) which was usually carried by women.