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{
    "localId": "80947",
    "label": "Monogrammed Repeater Watch",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.291"
}

{
    "id": "80947",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.291",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Monogrammed Repeater Watch",
    "description": "This watch belonged to Jennie Walters Delano (born Jennie Walters, 1853-1922), the only daughter of William T. Walters and the sister of Henry Walters, who founded the Walters Art Museum. Her married initials (J.W.D.) are engraved on the case. Jennie married Warren Delano in 1876.The watch is a minute repeater and the case is 18K gold. Nickel jeweled movement with a Swiss lever escarpment.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Jennie Walters Delano, after 1876, by gift; Mrs. Jean Walters Delano Edgell [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Mr. Henry Walters Edgell, Manchester, New Hampshire [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Mrs. Elizabeth Edgell, February 9, 1986, by gift [from her husband, Mr. Henry Walters Edgell]; Walters Art Museum, 2010, by gift.",
    "date": "ca. 1880",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.291",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "watches"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_58.291_Closd_DD_T11.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_58.291_Closd_DD_T11.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 in. (5.08 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "Engraved: \"\"J.W.D.\"\"",
    "med": "gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "34414"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1954"
    ]
}

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