Watch paper from a watch serviced by one of the Dominy Family clock makers. This decorative watch paper carries the name of Thomas Richards, a clock and watch maker based on Pearl Street and at Burlings Slip in New York City. 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. These 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 the inscription "8-17 / 1399" on the reverse. Other watch papers in the collection from Thomas Richards also bear notations on the reverse.