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 ...

The T-bar design, a twist on a Victorian watch fob chain, suddenly is being seen everywhere. T-bar pendants and necklaces by the jewelry designer Lucy Delius. The style, derived from antique watches, ...