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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 641483, member: 36"]I found this in a pile of stuff. It looks like a watch winder and it's definitely a gold-filled fob. One side is marked KWINK, possibly an old news agency. The other is marked with 5 Ss. The pentagonal shape may have a meaning of some kind, but I'm not privy to that either. It's inscribed with someone's initials. </p><p><br /></p><p>The KWINK I keep finding information on was a sketchy dating site, that went live a lot later than this watch winder did. A few published newspaper articles referred to a company of the same name back around 1910 as though it was a news agency, but that's all I found.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]183440[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]183441[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 641483, member: 36"]I found this in a pile of stuff. It looks like a watch winder and it's definitely a gold-filled fob. One side is marked KWINK, possibly an old news agency. The other is marked with 5 Ss. The pentagonal shape may have a meaning of some kind, but I'm not privy to that either. It's inscribed with someone's initials. The KWINK I keep finding information on was a sketchy dating site, that went live a lot later than this watch winder did. A few published newspaper articles referred to a company of the same name back around 1910 as though it was a news agency, but that's all I found. [ATTACH=full]183440[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]183441[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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