Mervin Perry, repeating and plain watch and clock-maker, from London. (The Pennsylvania Gazette, June 27, 1771)ġ775 Mervin Perry, New York: Finishes Watches Also all kinds of clock and watch files, and a parcel of silver watches. Imported, and to be Sold, by John Wood, clock and Watch-Maker, At the Corner of Front and Chestnut-streets, Cast and forged clock-work, sheet brass, finished faces, cast watch-work, clock pinions cut, hard brass wire, pillar brass, clock bells, watch case springs and buttons, gold, silver and pinchbeck pendants, fusee chains, chain hooks, silk strings, catgut, flour emery, rotten stone, pumice stone, silvering, borax, pinion wire, click steel, steel wire, small square steel, flat ditto, clock hands, watch ditto, Turkey oil stones, polishing stones, crocus martis, gilding wax, and scratch brushes, clock gravers, clock turn benches, watch ditto, enameled dial-plates, watch bench vices, hand and tail vices, sliding tongs, cutting nippers, watch beak irons, small hammers, watch-case hammers and stakes, broaches, pinion and frame gauges, clock and watch screw plates, punches, spring saw frames, braces and bitts, spring blowers, steel tweezers, dividers, calipers, scrapers, freezing tools, beam compasses, clock and watch plyers, riveting tools, endless screw keys, blow pipes, screw drivers, black wax, watch pendulum wires, bunting chains, oil stone slips, colored watch papers, &c. (The Pennsylvania Gazette, September 24, 1767)ġ769 Estate of Watchmaker Rudy Stoner, Lancaster County, Pennsylvaniaġ springs, warranted, £2/15/0 6 do, £1/4/0Ģ Stakes, 1 Hamer for watche Cases, £0/12/0ġ Machine for making Clock Chains, £0/3/0ġ Adjusting Bob, 1 Spring Blewer, 1 Caleper, £0/14/0ġ Small do, 3 pair Tongs & 2 Hammers, £1/6/0ġ Brace, 1 Square & Scriping Tool, £0/12/6Ģ Screw plates, 1 Countersink, 1 Small finning Lathe, £0/7/6ġ2 Arbers with brass Collects, 9 do with wood, £0/5/3ġ Barrel arbor for Clock Work, 1 do for Watch work £0/8/0Ĥ Brass Scrapers, 1 Reemer with 2 Stakes, £0/2/6ĥ doz.: watch makers files with Handles, £1/10/0Ģ5 Burnishers Opners Sliting files & Turning Tools, £0/12/6Ģ Counter Sinkes, 2 Rivetings tools, 1 Gage, £0/2/6Ģ pair Callipers, 2 pair Compasses, 1 pair of Dividers, £0/3/6ġ Glais’d Case for holding watches, £0/3/0ġ lot of Ground in Henry Mussers Town, £10/0/0ġ771 John Wood, Philadelphia: Supplies Parts and Tools Any person wanting a watch of Twenty Guineas price, may be here supplied as in London. for watch-menders, which he will sell low. He also makes wheels, pinions, verges, &c. He also repairs watches after the neatest and best manner, and at a reasonable price. Watch finisher, from London, Now living opposite the Court-house door, in the borough of Lancaster, Undertakes to make good, sound, and neat silver watches, for £12 currency and as many people have been under the necessity of importing good watches from England or Ireland, he now assures those who would incline to have good watches, that he has, besides himself, two regular bred workmen from England the one a movement-maker, and the other a motion-maker: Therefore any person who wants a watch, he will warrant it for three years, without mending, to the purchaser, and whatever size the purchaser chooses, from the size of a half dollar, to a larger, they may have, and in three months' time from bespeaking of it. 1767 Thomas Skidmore, Lancaster: Finishes Watches, Supplies Parts
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