Watch paper from a watch serviced by one of the Dominy Family clock makers. This decorative watch paper carries the name of Thomas Wildbahn Clock & Watch Maker based in Reading, Pennsylvania. 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. The Card File of American Craftspeople, 1600-1995 from The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. Winterthur, Delaware accessed via Ancestry.com indicates that Thomas Wildbahn died in 1805 and started working in 1789, so those dates are used to approximate the print date for this watch paper.