Show Our Oar Carly Early Watches The first watches were produced In all aU sorts orts of fanciful designs with cases shaped like crosses or shells or mandolins says a writer In the Washington Star A peculiar fashIon fash fash- Ion was that of a watch case shaped like a skull to remind the owner when he looked at it that time was fleeting and death was drawing near The lovely and unlucky Mary Queen of o. Scots had a skull shaped watch and in view of her death on the headsman's block it was gruesomely appropriate Cavaliers had swords and poniards with little watches set into the hilts |