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09-20-2006, 01:24 PM
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found this online.

I had a chance to buy one in the 80's but did not have the money to get it.


Pennsylvania Railroad Co 18S KW Elgin, S#126842, 15J BW Raymond gr 69, coin silver OF case signed ”J.R.Reed & Co Pitts” (Pittsburgh Pa) plain polished case with faint but legible #529 engraved on raised circle in center of back (the locomotive number) Roman porcelain dial signed “Pennsylvania Railroad Co” open Tulip hands, all original (this watch is from the first run of the first American watches to be commissioned by a Railroad)

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