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TOY
Unique ID: LON-D48FEB
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Post Medieval toy watch front with time in roman numerals and central hole for hands' mechanism. Roman numerals delinieate the time from I to XII within a band around the circumference of the watch plate. The metal has been distorted in places and has a golden patina in places where the tin has oxidised. the obverse is dived into concentric rings of varying width, all are plain apart from the second ring in from the edge which contains the numerals.The hand of the watch is now missing, but there would only have been one. The second hand was not introduced to time-pieces until around AD1680, and then is not seen in toys until the AD1700s. The reverse has a recessed ring corresponding in width to the outer most 3 rings on the obverse. Forsyth and Egan (2005) illustrate a similar dial, p. 348 ref.12.5, and date the example to AD1630-1650.
See also database entries LON-D54B42, LON-920A42 and LON-98FC10
Diameter: 36.71mm, Thickness: 1.24mm, Weight: 10.43g
Reference: Forsyth, H. and Egan, G. 2005. Toys, Trifles and Trinkets. Base Metal Miniatures from London 1200 to 1800. Unicorn Press, London.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1630
Date to: Circa AD 1670
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1.24 mm
Weight: 10.43 g
Diameter: 36.71 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: London (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Greater London Authority (Greater London Authority)
District: Tower Hamlets (London Borough)
Parish or ward: St. Katharine's and Wapping (London Borough Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ3480
Four figure Latitude: 51.50305749
Four figure longitude: -0.07075664
1:25K map: TQ3480
1:10K map: TQ38SW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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