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     Alexh New member Username: Alexh Post Number: 1 Registered: 04-2008 Rating: N/A |
Hi everyone, Today my grandmother was cleaning her basement and found 3 old pocket watches in a plastic bag. She said one belonged to her father (my great-grandfather). It is an Illinois Watch Company 17-jewel that doesn't work, movements serial number 2,843,148 from 1916. The other two are empty watch cases with no internal components. One case is silver/grey and says "Illinois Watch Case Co., Nickel, USA, case serial 424,576". The other case says "Wadsworth Referee Warranted 20 years, case serial 2,765,323". I think it is a Hamilton Referee model. I would appreciate it if anyone could give me the manufacturing dates on the two empty cases, and an estimate of how much the Illinois 1916 watch is worth. Here are pictures of them. Thank you! The Illinois 1916 http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w21/AlexHuegel/Pocketwatches/Illinois.jpg Illinois Watch Case Company http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w21/AlexHuegel/Pocketwatches/Illinois_watch_c ase_co.jpg Back of the Hamilton (I couldn't get a good picture of the front since the glass is so dirty inside) http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w21/AlexHuegel/Pocketwatches/Hamilton_back.jp g All three watches together http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w21/AlexHuegel/Pocketwatches/watches.jpg |