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culture characters turn up on timepieces
Although he wasn the first a few characters such as Skeezix,community.jodoshuna.org/members/sonyampkp/activity/14948/, Smitty, Moon Mullins and Buster Brown preceded him it was Mickey Mouse that set the pace of the entire comic character timepiece industry. Walt Disney granted a license to the Waterbury, Conn., firm founded by Robed Ingersoll and his brother to produce not only a wristwatch (which sold for the thennotinconsiderable price of $3.75), but a pocket watch, an electric clock and a windup clock,musicheng.net/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3902660, each retailing for $1.50.
This line was so successful that the financially shaky Ingersoll Co. was able to increase its work force from 300 to 3,000. Within the first year, 900,tg0030.criarumblog.com/The-first-blog-b1/Pandora-Bracelets-Sale-haribhoomi-and-dainik-bhaskar-b1-p80.htm,000 Mickey Mouse watches and clocks had been produced, with Macy in New York selling 11,000 watches in a single day. By March 1935, Ingersoll was Disney largest licensee.
Ingersoll may have had the Disney franchise they went on to market watches featuring the Big Bad Wolf in 1934, Donald Duck, the Three Little Pigs,divine-gamers.co.uk/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?38441.last,blog1.de/cheappandoracharmssale/2850683/See+results+about+jewelry+fitted+to+all+household+chairs.html, Snow White and Dopey, Pinocchio, Bambi, Joe (Jose) Carioca and others but this didn prevent other companies from going after other popular characters.
High on every kid Christmas list of the period were those featuring Popeye,beckcae.liveblog.at/2013/10/25/traininginfinance-shoulder-bags-unified-participation/, Superman, Orphan Annie, Buck Rogers, Dick Tracy and the Lone Ranger. World War II virtually put an end to characterwatch manufacturing, as it was deemed a nonessential product by the government and its factories were converted to military products. The Ingersoll plant, for example, was retooled for the production of military fuses for the armed forces.
After the war,agdpvigo.net/content/free-next-day-store-delivery-nbas-detroit-pistons, manufacturing resumed, again with Disney taking the lead, but other popculture favorites appeared, such as Porky Pig,oefen.groenweb.be/true-religion-womens-pastor-appreciation-month, Puss Boots, Captain Marvel, Mary Marvel, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Gene Autry, Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Joe Palooka, Hopalong Cassidy and Howdy Doody, but these never reached quite the widespread success of those in the earlier era. Gilbert, Tom Engle and Cooksey Shugart (Tinderbox Press). More extensively dealt with are standard American and European pocket watches and wristwatches from Bulova and Benrus to Baume Mercier.
In addition to a full complement of blackandwhite illustrated and priced examples, features include appraising and grading guidelines, manufacturers marks, and other features. If you were lucky enough to have saved your childhood watch in mint condition in its original box, you might be in for a windfall.
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