Featured Watchmaker's 60 Drawer Cabinet

Here's a piece I just picked up-a 60 drawer watchmaker's cabinet.
It's designed to hold tiny watch parts (crystals,hands,gears,faces).
Size-20 1/4" X 16" X 5" deep.
I'm trying to ID the Watch/Jewelry Store it came from.If you look at the latter pics You'll see a check glued to the inside of a drawer-it seems printed by a Tillamook,OR shop.There's a partial signature on the draft-'Isacc E.' (the rest's obscured). I'm guessing this was the firms owner (?).

 

Frequently I see remarkable items here that make me regret giving up 'the hunt' in thrifts, malls etc...an' this is high on that list, Bosko! What a delightful find!
Not that I have room for any more furniture...but had I found it, the petty issue of where oh where to put it would not have caused enough hesitation to notice. I am quite frankly envious of your great good fortune, sir...Bravo!

 

very nice !!!!!!

 

Great piece

When you have time to kill, you can search the historic Oregon newspapers with different search criteria to see who was doing business in town back in the day.

I wonder what Stanley's-Tillamook in the lower left of that note refers to.

 

Thanks all-I was thrilled to find the possibility of a historical 'backstory' here. Strangely enough-I get a kick out of these old storage pieces.
I'd have a few old quality Tansu if i had big cash-starting with the old maritime iron-strapped type.
*Sabre-I think the 'Stanley's-Tillamook' imprint refers to the local printing shop that produced these forms.Frequently the small town local newspapers did these for side cash (perhaps not in this case).

 

Great looking item,very attractive! Nice little label also

 

I just really want this piece...

~Cheryl

 

Are all the drawer interiors the same...or are some divided or otherwise different?

 

Fantastic!!!

 

if they are the same , I'd organizer them into some kind of pattern..... jest fer fun !!

 

If they're the same...how would ya 'organizer' them?

 

I absolutely could use this for my miniatures !

 

Sweet cabinet! I’m big sucker for any type of cabinet with lots of compartments.

 

Yes,i love it,and have played around with different drawer arrangements a few times.It's kind of like a very subdued,earthy Mondrian.

 

by using the grain on each as a design element..

 

Oh...Now I unnerstand, Komo...thanks.

 

Here's all i found inside the cabinet.Interestingly,there were 5 tiny tins of 'Nite Lite Hands'-sounds like glow-in-the dark radium wristwatch hands to me ?

 

Given those labels, I think hands are for Waltham and Elgin pocket watches, not wristwatches.

 

Jeff-Thanks for the insight.Can you estimate the dates on the tins ?

 

No, but this link says radium first used on watch hands in “early 1900s”, so not 19th century. How far into 20th century would best come from your written labels you showed, but these canisters aren’t necessarily same age as storage cabinet, though looks similar to me (early 20th).
https://collectability.com/educatio...escence-from-the-early-20th-century-to-today/