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Watch paper from a watch serviced by one of the Dominy Family clock makers. This decorative watch paper carries the name of Adam Henderson Clock & Watch Maker based in Poughkeepsie, New York. 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 reverse of this watch paper carries multiple notations on the reverse which read "2038," "JBL," and "AG." A note along the outer edge of the watch paper contains instructions "To make the watch go faster turn the regulator to the right slower to the left."

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