Collection of watches loaned to the Metropolitan museum of art of the city of New York

Hearn, George A., Mrs, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Howard, Wendell Stanton, 1867-, Buck, John H., d. 1911 · 1907 · [New York] : Priv. print. [The Gilliss press] · 10 pictures

A privately printed 1907 catalogue from the Gilliss Press documenting Mrs. George A. Hearn's antique watches lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, compiled by John H. Buck and Wendell Stanton Howard for collectors and curators. Plates are high-contrast photographs of pocket watches on black grounds, showing enamel pastoral scenes, pearl-set bezels, engraved cases and Roman-numeral dials as isolated circular motifs.

Clocks and watches

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