Question: Years ago, my great-grandfather was given a handsome pocket watch by a friend whose late husband had owned it. It is silver, 2 inches in diameter and is attached to an oval shape watch fob ...

Question: My mother has a piece of china marked “JohnsonBros, England, Old Britain Castles.” What can you tell me about it, and what is it worth? — S.D. Answer: It is a creamer manufactured by one of ...

During the 2015 field season, archaeologists with Colorado State University's Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands unearthed a Bucyrus-Erie Co. pocket watch fob. The pocket watch fob ...

Mr. Woodward, or should I say Robert McCall, a.k.a. the Equalizer, is wearing a watch fob in his buttonhole and is carrying a pocket watch in his breast pocket. You may notice that there is some chain ...

Amongst the smallest hallmarked antiques commonly available are watch fob medals, a decorative item now scarcely remembered, even by the few remaining wearers of pocket watches. Fob medals, hung from ...

Lieutenant James Todd of Boston, a colonial militia soldier, reportedly took this watch from a British soldier at the Battle of Lexington in 1775. The English-made watch has two silver cases, designed ...

“My first introduction to all things fobs and chains was made 20 years ago while shopping in the Queen Victoria building in Sydney, Australia,” Schmidlapp recalls. “I was on a business trip with my ...

The Horological Society of New York staged an exhibition of pocket watches this summer, while a vintage piece by British watchmaker Roger W. Smith recently sold for a cool US$4.9 million When everyone ...