$4,859
18kt Gold Minute Repeating Open Face Pocket Watch, Bigelow Kennard & Co. , of Boston Interest, the white enamel dial with Arabic numeral indicators, subsidiary seconds dial, within plain polished case no. 88508 117, enclosing slide-activated jeweled movement no. 11676, suspended from a 14kt gold baton-link chain, 42 mm, signed, in original fitted brass-bound Boston jeweler's box, (cuvette and verso engraved). Note: Given by Mayor Curley to his son, the Reverend Francis X. Curley, S.J, in 1955. According to Rev. William Russel, "if the honorable James Michael was a legend, so was his youngest son, . . . as Irish as the shamrocks on the shutters of the Curley mansion on the Jamaicaway." Proceeds to benefit the James Woods Scholarship Fund at Boston College, College of Advancing Studies. Bigelow runs and winds chain approx. 9.5 dwt without the gilt cross fob Reverse with Francis Curley''s monogram. Box with scratches and veneer cracks but iverall nice condition slight scratches to case case is engraved in cursive
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2009-03-17
