101st Auction
2019/11/16
Lot 555
Adolph Lange, Dresden, Movement No. 6901, Case No. 6901, 50 mm, 112 g, circa 1870
A Glashuette half hunting case pocket watch, sold on 1870/04/30 to company Charles William Schumann in New York - with Lange extract from the archives. Former property of the American Colonel James Neilson Potter.
Case: 18k pink gold, dedication engraving, engraved coat of arms. Dial: enamel. Movm.: 3/4 plate movement, gold screw compensation balance.
James Neilson Potter was born in 1841 in Schenectady, New York; he was lieutenant and captain in the American Civil War and in 1864 was made a colonel in the 146th New York Infantry. After the war he held positions in industry for some time before retiring to spend the rest of his life in Europe. Potter died in 1906 in Stratford-on-Avon in England and was laid to his final resting place in Pau on the northern edge of the Pyrenees in France.
A Glashuette half hunting case pocket watch, sold on 1870/04/30 to company Charles William Schumann in New York - with Lange extract from the archives. Former property of the American Colonel James Neilson Potter.
Case: 18k pink gold, dedication engraving, engraved coat of arms. Dial: enamel. Movm.: 3/4 plate movement, gold screw compensation balance.
James Neilson Potter was born in 1841 in Schenectady, New York; he was lieutenant and captain in the American Civil War and in 1864 was made a colonel in the 146th New York Infantry. After the war he held positions in industry for some time before retiring to spend the rest of his life in Europe. Potter died in 1906 in Stratford-on-Avon in England and was laid to his final resting place in Pau on the northern edge of the Pyrenees in France.
Sold
estimated
3.700—5.000 €
Price realized
4.800 €