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An accessory for "steampunk" costuming.

It's actually an antique pedometer, made in a watch-like style. The diamond shape with letters in it is the logo of the American Pedometer Company. The letters at the bottom say "Made in USA - Patent applied for", and this device later received US patents 694,652 (March 4th 1902) and 738,482 (September 8th 1903). The watch stem with knob at the top is not the original stem for this case, which had no knob and was equipped with a belt hook.
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~VonYannis Aug 6, 2008
Is it just me or is the "7" on the face just an upside-down 2 :D
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*DonSimpson Aug 6, 2008
If you turned it upside-down, it would pass for a two, but it looks quite different from the two on this face turned upside-down. I've seen several old watch faces which have sevens that curl at the bottom like that; styles come and go. On some old manuscripts, fours look like lower-case "e"s, fives like lower-case "h"s or "g"s, sevens look like upside-down "V"s, and sometimes twos look like "7"s and eights like "S"s.
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~VonYannis Aug 7, 2008
Yeah, I've seen some old text like that, there's a sign in the stone on my local healatorium (hospital) with a capital "u" depicted as a "V" and a capital "v" is a "V" with a "_" stuck on the bottom.
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*DonSimpson Aug 7, 2008
Since the original Roman alphabet didn't have a "u" or "j", there was a lot of using "v" for "u" and "i" for "j" over several decades (I couldn't give exact dates). Mostly on building inscriptions, but I have an old book that uses "v" for "u" _or_ "v" at the start of a word, and "u" for "u" _or_ "v" anywhere else; and "i" for "j", but with both capitol "I" and "J". (1903 letterpress edition of a 1596 translation of Cupid and Psyche, so it also has a lot of 16th century spelling and such.)
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Mood: Amazed *CharlesSmithOrg Aug 5, 2008
I thought it was a metric watch at first.
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!SherylLaBouchardiere Jun 6, 2008
Very nice :nod:
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~shrewmania Dec 27, 2007
The patent on it is probably long expired by now... ^^;

Anywhoo, the whole concept of "steampunk" is an interesting one; instead of a plastic world of rapidly changing computer technology, it's a more timeless world of mechanical devices. :meditation:
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*DonSimpson Dec 27, 2007
And possibly noisier. :)
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*keight Jul 18, 2007
Nice find!
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*DonSimpson Jul 18, 2007
Indeed. I love searching out weird old stuff like this in stores and sales....
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