Just from WHERE did it emanate? Well, it is well known that the sun shines out of my arse so maybe that's where the ray came from.:-)
Maybe they will box up all the unsold and take it to the municipal dump?
A more relevant term would be a watch fob. Typically, a prize in some minor swimming contest. The 'S P' in MSP might mean silver plate.
Looks like cast iron to me. I'd put money on it. Look at the huge number of metal to metal welds that would have to heated and hammered. Which...
All the ones I have ever seen have been bone, not ivory. Fine and well bleached but bone.
It would not interest a watch collector but a Batman fan might love it.
The good news is that it probably works. The movements were not finely made but they were durable. Your parents probably did not wind the strike...
With rare exceptions the Vienna regulators were not regulators either. The vast majority had a seconds dial marked to 60 seconds that the clock...
Crystal Regulator is what they have been called since they were made, so it's a fair usage, like the well known Ansonia regulators, just a term...
Could equally be an Ansonia model. They were cheaper versions of French late 19th C 4 glass clocks and most clockmakers made a version of the...
Camping gear. I agree the cup is not related.
Someone probably pointed out that as a country of origin mark it was much like stamping 'Alberta' on a Canadian piece as the correct name is 'The...
Possibly the most interesting thing about it is that it is a British book, a fairly early product of the Oxford University Press as the Clarendon...
I see Spain or Portugal, so why not Mexico?
These usually have an oversize watch called a 'Goliath' in them. They were often 8 day watches and the whole thing was really a travelling bedside...
If it was made for the Navy and not export why is the blade marked Solingen Germany with Germany in English? The form is very similar to a...
It's an EU thing. Search 'Introduction of convention hallmarks'
Intestines for sausage skins.
The movement is a very cheap 30 hour 'insertion movement', a standard that would fit many types of cases, like a modern quartz movement, but...
Whoever wrote that description is beyond parody.....and by a good long way.
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