Carved Jeweler’s Trade Sign in First Paint
A true New England country pocket watch trade sign. Most jeweler’s and watchmaker’s trade signs were the late 19th products of commercial foundries. In contrast, this is a one-off design, probably by a local carpenter, composed of three 2” thick slabs of pine with a carved stem inset. The front edge is chamfered all around to represent a watch bezel. Silver on the watch stem is a second coat. Either Mr. Abel or the sign painter considered that three “e’s” in “jeweler” were one too many, so Mr. P. Abel’s sign proudly proclaimed him a Jewler. Two-sided, 22” diameter. Observing tradition, the painter set the hands at 8:17, the time Lincoln is popularly supposed to have died. Tradition is a good thing in its way, but most authorities agree that Lincoln was shot
at 10:10 in the evening and died at 7:22 the next morning.
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