The Boys Own Book
Waterbury, Connecticut: Waterbury Watch Co., 1885. An 1885 promotional booklet for Waterbury brand watches, offering entertaining content for boys. Includes fun facts (the record for oyster shucking is 100 in 3 min, 5 sec, in 1884, p. [3]), hints for organizing a camping trip with friends, famous world records, amusing cartoons, an anecdote of George Washington's life, instructions with diagrams for tying sailing knots, and a poem about summer. Includes local sales agent information printed on upper wrapper (D.H. Brigham & Co. of Springfield), and general sales agent inside upper wrapper George Merritt of New York). Single vol. (5.25" by 3.5"), pp. [16], illus., in original illus. wrps with image of smiling boy with sporting equipment on upper wrapper, and boy on a penny farthing on the lower wrapper. Very good. Small surface tear to upper wrapper. Light toning/spotting.
Price: $115.00
Item #25026815