Watch paper from a watch serviced by one of the Dominy Family clock makers. This decorative watch paper carries the name of John A. Shaw & Watch Maker, based on Thames Street in Newport, presumably Newport, Rhode Island. 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 bears no inscription on the reverse, but the image is an elaborate drawing of a winged figure in robes holding a shield carrying Shaw's name and address. This figure and drawing is almost an exact replica of the image on the watch paper from another Newport watch maker, Walter Cornell, also located on Thames Street. The figure is probably either supposed to be a classical winged god like Roman Saturn, who was associated with time, or an angelic figure.