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GEORGE P. REED. A PATENT MODEL FOR AN INDEPENDENT SECONDS-MOVEMENT FOR WATCHESSigned "Geo P. Reed" for US Patent No. 15251, dated July 1, 1856 image 1
GEORGE P. REED. A PATENT MODEL FOR AN INDEPENDENT SECONDS-MOVEMENT FOR WATCHESSigned "Geo P. Reed" for US Patent No. 15251, dated July 1, 1856 image 2
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GEORGE P. REED. A PATENT MODEL FOR AN INDEPENDENT SECONDS-MOVEMENT FOR WATCHES
Signed "Geo P. Reed" for US Patent No. 15251, dated July 1, 1856

3 June 2021, 13:00 EDT
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GEORGE P. REED. A PATENT MODEL FOR AN INDEPENDENT SECONDS-MOVEMENT FOR WATCHES

Signed "Geo P. Reed" for US Patent No. 15251, dated July 1, 1856
Movement: The mechanism planted on a circular brass plate with arbor for second hand (now lacking) on the reverse
Size: 45.8mm
Accompaniments: Original US Patent Office tag

Footnotes

Presumably the patent model for "...A mechanism which although it may be used for beating and indicating seconds of time, may be so detached from the mechanism for indicating hours and minutes, that its movement may be arrested, while those of the hour and minute hand mechanism are suffered to continue."

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