You'd...BETTER...be collecting for "fun!"

topstuf

I fear the future may be bleak indeed. You may remember this watch I showed on the Open Forum.

Neat old watch

Well, I have it on the table next to my chair. On Thanksgiving I had to wind it. The grandkids (ages 9-15) said, "Grampa...Grampa....what's THAT?"

To which I answered, "Why kids, it's an old watch. Would you like to see it running through the glass?" (expecting a stampede)

0 out of 4 would even cross the room.

Ah well..........

Shudda knowed. Watches tell time. They gots batteries. The batteries die. Ya buy a new watch. It don't ....MOVE. How dumb of me.

57cameonut

just a little neater than my 1915 Waltham railroad watch

tjkillian

Speaking of old watches, what is an old Waltham watch that was made in May, 1863, made of sterling silver, and keeps time worth? I was given it for Christmas three years ago and use it everytime I go reenacting, but have no clue whatsoever as to its value.

Tom

ajia

Somebody has to turn off the TV &/or video games and show our kids were logical thinking came from.

I'm still amazed how many cashiers there are that couldn't save their lives if it depended on giving out correct changes without the register!

BTW- VERY Cool Watch.

dlimb2

"old Waltham watch that was made in May, 1863" That is a Cival War pocket Watch. Abe Lincoln carried an 11 jewel Waltham...soooooooooooooo hang on to it.

If you ask me and many other people, these old watches will oneday be very very valuable as there are no parts for many of them...and Watch repairmen are a dying breed...Many of them already are very valuable.

The value like coins is condition condtion condition!

busco69

I have one that says American Watch Co. Waltham Mass Coin Silver it was my great great grandfathers.By the way your watch is realy nice.

57cameonut

Way OT,but is anybody here a rank amatuer history buff ?

was watching Bonanza in the early hrs and was kinda curious why they were carrying 1894 Winchesters and the show was set b 4 Lincoln was Prez ?

cladking

<< <i>Way OT,but is anybody here a rank amatuer history buff ?

was watching Bonanza in the early hrs and was kinda curious why they were carrying 1894 Winchesters and the show was set b 4 Lincoln was Prez ? >>



I was never a big Bonanza fan but saw enough of it to know that they jumped all over
from being set in the 1850's to the late 1880's. They also had numerous historical inaccuracies.

May they rest in peace.

...so it goes.

dlimb2

Well what era was the Rifleman set in...he carried a Winchester also but I don't know what year it was...but I sure would like to have one like it....I have my Dad's 1889 Remington double Damascus barrel shotgun at 90%.

topstuf

Gun nut here. Picture a Bonanza episode where Pa gets ambushed and the sons all rush in with ONE shot apiece. Before they gotta stop, pour some powder down the barrel, stick a ball on top (with a patch under it) ...RAM..it down the barrel with a rod, pull back* the hammer, put a percussion cap on the nipple, and THEN...aim and fire ............ONE..........more shot. Oooooooooohhhh!!!! ACTION.....EXCITEMENT...... Hafta change the whole damn genre to "LOAD em ups"

*pull back is a substitute for the heinous word I intended to use but was caught just in the nick of time by the decency police.