Vintage 18k Gold Filled Vest Chain & T-Bar 1896 S.B. Champlin Co. NOS
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Directory: Antiques: Instruments and Implements: Timepieces: Pocket Watches: Pre 1900: Item # 1461402
Directory: Antiques: Instruments and Implements: Timepieces: Pocket Watches: Pre 1900: Item # 1461402
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10866 Washington Blvd. #855
Culver City, Ca. 90232
Cell: 310-430-2275
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10866 Washington Blvd. #855
Culver City, Ca. 90232
Cell: 310-430-2275
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S.B. Champlin Company
Providence, RI
1872 - 1934
The men's watch chain or "Vest Chain" is typically much scarcer than the pocket watch itself. This is because by 1915, the watch was retired to storage and the chain “discarded”, thrown away, or women converted them to bracelets. This fine men’s vest chain presented was produced by the Champlin Co. in 1896, inventoried, and was never sold to the trade or Jeweler for sale. It is therefore, in pristine, new but old stock condition! Can’t get any rarer or desirable! These chains are among uncirculated inventory that the Champlin Co. never sold to the trade in 1896. Never known to exist until I began to release them from my personal collection.
A sharply angled, almost-triangular-plan 5-story brick industrial building, this was constructed by the S.B. Champlin Company (established 1872) to house its manufacturing of gold rings and gold-filled chains as well as provide rental space for other jewelry manufacturers, an own-and-rent practice then common in the jewelry industry and characteristic of neighboring contemporary buildings in the Jewelry District. The building was so successful that it was enlarged to the south in 1901; only a faintly visible seam marks the union of the two sections. In 1978, the building was converted to condominium use, the first of its type in the area, and retains mixed residential and commercial use.
Gold filled vest chains were originally produced with high gold content. True Gold-Filled vest chains are considered a solid karat gold with today's value per gram @ $3.22. This NOS chain weighs 9 grams.
This is one example of many chains never used, sold or applied to a watch. Please view the images of this chain selection inventory with the attached images provided. Length varies from 9 - 14 inches. Still has the original Sales Manufacturers tag on each of them. Vintage 18k Gold Filled Vest Chain & T-Bar 1896 S.B. Champlin Co., Providence, RI. NOS. Prestine original condition. THIS IS A FINE COLLECTIBLE. DON'T INVEST IN THE STOCK MARKET OR BONDS. BUY HISTORIC AND COLLECTIBLE HARD ASSETS.
NOTE: We have been selling vintage watches on E-Bay since 1998 as watchco1974 with over 9800 vintage watch sales and 100% positive feedbacks. You can buy from us with confidence.
OTHER NICE FEATURES: Free U.S. Shipping. $58 Fedex overseas.
A sharply angled, almost-triangular-plan 5-story brick industrial building, this was constructed by the S.B. Champlin Company (established 1872) to house its manufacturing of gold rings and gold-filled chains as well as provide rental space for other jewelry manufacturers, an own-and-rent practice then common in the jewelry industry and characteristic of neighboring contemporary buildings in the Jewelry District. The building was so successful that it was enlarged to the south in 1901; only a faintly visible seam marks the union of the two sections. In 1978, the building was converted to condominium use, the first of its type in the area, and retains mixed residential and commercial use.
Gold filled vest chains were originally produced with high gold content. True Gold-Filled vest chains are considered a solid karat gold with today's value per gram @ $3.22. This NOS chain weighs 9 grams.
This is one example of many chains never used, sold or applied to a watch. Please view the images of this chain selection inventory with the attached images provided. Length varies from 9 - 14 inches. Still has the original Sales Manufacturers tag on each of them. Vintage 18k Gold Filled Vest Chain & T-Bar 1896 S.B. Champlin Co., Providence, RI. NOS. Prestine original condition. THIS IS A FINE COLLECTIBLE. DON'T INVEST IN THE STOCK MARKET OR BONDS. BUY HISTORIC AND COLLECTIBLE HARD ASSETS.
NOTE: We have been selling vintage watches on E-Bay since 1998 as watchco1974 with over 9800 vintage watch sales and 100% positive feedbacks. You can buy from us with confidence.
OTHER NICE FEATURES: Free U.S. Shipping. $58 Fedex overseas.
