US491382A

US491382A - Watch-chain charm or other article of jewelry

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Publication number: US491382A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-02-07
Anticipated expiration: 1910-02-07

Description

(Nor Model.)

SLA. STAHL 8: B, KLIPPER. WATCH 0mm CHARM 0R OTHEE'ARTIGLB OF JEWELRY.

Patented Feb. 7. 1893'.-

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SAMUEL A. STAHL AND BENJAMIN KLIPPER, OF KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE.

WATGH CHAlN CHARM OR OTHER ARTICLE OF JEWELRY.

SEECIFIGATIONiorming part of Letters Patent No. 491,382, dated February '7, 1893.

Application filed November 15, 1892. Serial No. 452,073. (No model.)

To oaZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL A. Stein. and BENJAMIN Kmrrnn, of Knoxville, in the county oi Knox and State of Tennessee,have invented a new and useful Improvement in lVatch-Chain Charms, Breastpins, or other Articles of Jewelry, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention consists in a watch-chain charm, or other ornament or article of jewelry, includingbreast-pins, shawl-pins dsc, having, irrespective of their link, pin or hook attachment for fastening them in place, a globular form or construction designed to representthe earth, and having marked or delineated on it the shape of the land and oceans or waters on each hemisphere, and a microscope or microscopes inserted within holes in such globular body at certain places occupying different geographical positions notable in history or otherwise, said microscopes containing views illustrative of a particular event or events connected with said places, substantially ashereinaiter described and claimed.

The event or events which the charm or jewelry article here designed to commemorate, are the sailing of Columbus from the city of Palos in Spain on his voyage which resulted in the discovery of America, and the Columbian or lVorlds Fair now about being held at Chicago in the United States of America in honor or commemoration of such discovery.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figures 1 and 2 represent opposite exterior views of a globe-shaped charm or piece of jewelry, having delineated on it the land and water forming the eastern and western hemispheres of our globe the earth, with the invention applied; Fig. 3 is an irregular transverse section of said globe-shaped charm at the places indicated on it representing the city of Palos in Spain and Chicago in the United States of America, respectively; and Figs. 4. and 5 are face views of microscopic lenses with pictorial photographs on them illustrating respectively the sailing of Columbus and the Chicago or Colombian Worlds Fair.

In saiddrawings,Aistheglobe-shapedcharm or piece of jewelry representing the earth, Fig. 1 representing the western hemisphere, and Fig. 2, the eastern hemisphere with their land and water demarcations. At the place marked Palos in Fig. 2, a hole I) is made, in the one end of which is inserted a minute microscope d containing a photographic or other View c, Fig. 5, of the ships in which Columbus and his followers sailed on their exploring expedition which resulted in the discovery of America; and at the place marked Chicago in Fig. 1 is another hole fat the one end of which is inserted another microscope (1 containing a View 6, Fig. 4:, of the buildings of the Columbian or Worlds Fair now about being held in Chicago in commemoration of the discovery of America by Columbus, so that by looking first-through the one microscope and then through the other, the two connected historical or prominent events are exhibited in their respective geographical positions. Such charm or piece of jewelry, which conveys amusement with instructions, may be made of metal or other material, either in one piece or, as shown by the dotted line in Fig. 3, in two pieces, and may have a loop, link or other plain or ornamental attachment for utilizing the article either as an appendage or fastenin g as desired and as hereinbefore referred to.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

As a new article of manufacture, the within described charm or piece of jewelry, of globular construction, representing the earth with its land and water divisions appearing thereon, and having holes made in or through it at fixed places of historical or national im- 0 portance, in combination with a microscope or microscopes inserted therein at said places and containing views illustrative of the particular events which associate or give notoriety to said places, substantially as specified.

SAMUEL A. STAHL. BENJAMIN KLIPPER.

lVitnesses:

J. W. MCSPADDEN, E. B. KELLER.