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Washington, March 10, 2009 - The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History announced it has found a "secret" message engraved in President Abraham Lincoln's watch by a watchmaker who was repairing it in 1861 when news of the attack on Fort Sumter reached Washington, D.C.
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Word was out that a pocket watch that once belonged to Abraham Lincoln might have a secret message engraved inside of it. The evidence, while not overwhelming, was enough to pique the museum's.
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March 10, 2009 Lincoln's watch is a fine gold timepiece that the 16th president purchased in the 1850s from a Springfield, Illinois jeweler. It has been in the safe custody of the Smithsonian.
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Lincoln never knew his pocket watch carried this hidden inscription. And no one else knew either until an 84-year-old Dillon gave an interview to. News, Press, Watch Industry. A Letter From Our Founder, Hamilton Powell. February 18, 2021.
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March 10, 2009. WASHINGTON — Confirming a rumor that has circulated for generations, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History opened a gold pocket watch that belonged to Abraham.
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March 10, 2009. News Release. The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History announced it has found a "secret" message engraved in President Abraham Lincoln's watch by a watchmaker who was repairing it in 1861 when news of the attack on Fort Sumter reached Washington, D.C. In an interview with The New York Times April 30, 1906.
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Message behind the dial of Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch Description: Lincoln's English gold watch was purchased in the 1850s from George Chatterton, a Springfield, Illinois, jeweler. Lincoln was not considered to be outwardly vain, but the fine gold watch was a conspicuous symbol of his success as a lawyer.
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President Abraham Lincoln's Waltham Pocket Watch In tribute, upon the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln was presented with a William Ellery, key wind watch Waltham Model 1857, serial number 67613. This watch is now in the collection of the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. [3] [4] [5]
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Ref #: PA.1396418 Date: 01/11/1865. US President Abraham Lincoln owned a gold pocket watch. Housed in the The Smithsonian, the watch holds a secret..no one alive today can recall the tragic day in 1861 when Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, beginning a terrible and tragic war that divided this nation and changed it forever.
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Posted on November 2, 2020 With the Election Day today, we thought we'd take a look back at the watches belonging to Abraham Lincoln - America's 16th president. Lincoln was known to have owned a few pocket watches in his time, but there are two in particular that seem noteworthy: a gold pocket watch and a Waltham pocket watch.
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WASHINGTON — For nearly 150 years, a story has circulated about a hidden Civil War message engraved inside Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch. Just recently, museum curators confirmed it was true. "Jonathan Dillon April 13 - 1861," part of the inscription reads, "Fort Sumpter (sic) was attacked by the rebels on the above date."
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The contents of Abraham Lincoln's pockets When he was shot, Abraham Lincoln was carrying a small pocket knife, two pairs of spectacles and a pocket watch fob in his pockets.
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Plot In 1910, Robert Todd Lincoln, an esteemed scientist, the only living son of former US President Abraham Lincoln, and a close friend of incumbent President William Howard Taft, reveals to the President that he has found an old pocket watch that belonged to his father.
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A hush fell over the room as the watchmaker halted his work. A partially-dismantled pocket watch that once belonged to President Abraham Lincoln gleamed in his hands. He looked up from his task and pushed a visor, fitted with magnifying glasses for detailed work, up onto the top of his head. "The moment of truth has come!" he boomed.
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Listen to the ticking sound of Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch. The watch, currently located at the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort, is one of two Lincoln pocket watches that are known to exist - the other being housed at the Smithsonian. It is a key-wound J. Jacqueson movement enclosed in a yellow gold hunting case, thought to have.
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Witness history as the National Museum of American History opens Abraham Lincoln's pocket watch to find an inscription that has remained hidden for more than.