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Show First Watches, First Fobs. Thero Is uncertainty ns to when tho portable watch, ns wo understand it today, to-day, came Into use. It was probably nt tho close of the sixteenth century. Queen Elizabeth owned a large number of watches. Mary Queen of Scots wns tho possessor of a skull-shaped watch. In fact, tho "death's head" pattern wns at, that time much ln vogue- Endless wero the styles, for there were watches shaped llko books, pears butterflies and tulips. Tho Nuremberg egg was a special shape and was first mado ln 1600. Those queer shapes of watches prevented prevent-ed their finding a place In tho pocket When was the fob first used In the dress of man? Tho German of fob Is "fuppe" and it Is believed that It came from England. Eng-land. This conjecture Is strengthened by tho fact that a short "fob" chain attnehod to a watch of Oliver Cromwell's In the British museum Is. ln point of dato, thc first appendago of tho kind known. The watch Is a small oval ono In a silver ense and was made about 1C25. London AVorhl |