Swiss nickel open faced character prize watch Circa 1900

Nickel Ally Sloper prize watch
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A Swiss nickel open-faced cylinder character prize watch, circa 1900. Keyless gilt bar movement with going barrel, plain cock with polished steel regulator, plain three-arm gilt balance with blue steel spiral hairspring, polished steel cylinder, and steel escape wheel. White enamel dial with Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds, and blue steel hands. Plain case, the back engraved with the cartoon character Ally Sloper above A. Sloper. F.O.M. (Friend of Man). The cuvette engraved Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday.
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Diameter: 48 mm
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Signed: No name
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These watches were given as prizes by the British comics magazine, Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday. Published weekly from 1884 to 1916 by ‘The Sloperies’, 99 Shoe Lane, London.