Watch paper from a watch serviced by one of the Dominy Family clock makers. This decorative watch paper carries the name of Solomon Parke Clock & Watch Maker, based in Philadelphia. Stephen Manheimer notes watch papers were really as much a form of decorative material as they were advertising. The papers would have also helped the watch components fit together. Papers from a prior watch maker would have been removed and repaired when a watch was repaired or serviced. At the point of repair, the business performing the maintenance would then place a watch paper advertising their own business inside the watch. This collection of watch papers were acquired as a lot from an antique dealer in Southampton selling many documents from the Dominy workshop. The Dominy accounts in the holdings at Winterthur offer corresponding details for many of the watch papers in this collection, as per Stephen Manheimer. This particular watch paper shows a notation of "M. Gardiner 1797," on the reverse. It may be a reference to "Mr. Gardiner," since many of the prominent Gardiner family were addressed with honorifics locally. The 1797 on the reverse is presumably a date for servicing the watch, which is on the earlier side for the watch papers, and it expands the date estimate.