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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 233154, member: 25"]I can't read what is on the dial. Note that things like 'The Railway Timekeeper' were generic watch names, and did not mean the watch had anything to do with railways, it was just advertising pufferey. I am pretty sure that one is Swiss made.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Acme whistle is common. The carriage door key is probably not hard to find, I had one myself when I was a teenager and used it to lock myself in on long train journeys. If there was no corridor, this meant I could have a whole compartment to myself. I'd just rech out through the window to unlock the door when past the last station before mine. </p><p>The watch appears to have a damaged dial and to be a routine early 20th C watch. I am pretty sure the chain is silver, since the T bar is silver and hallmarked.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 233154, member: 25"]I can't read what is on the dial. Note that things like 'The Railway Timekeeper' were generic watch names, and did not mean the watch had anything to do with railways, it was just advertising pufferey. I am pretty sure that one is Swiss made. The Acme whistle is common. The carriage door key is probably not hard to find, I had one myself when I was a teenager and used it to lock myself in on long train journeys. If there was no corridor, this meant I could have a whole compartment to myself. I'd just rech out through the window to unlock the door when past the last station before mine. The watch appears to have a damaged dial and to be a routine early 20th C watch. I am pretty sure the chain is silver, since the T bar is silver and hallmarked.[/QUOTE]
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