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Advertising : 11 wordsThe British Metalliferous Mines Company, Ltd., is putting an interesting watch upon the market which in everything, except the hands and the round dots by the side of each figure, is similar to any other watch. The hands are really very tiny dishes of the usual watch-hand shape, into which have been placed a composition 1 ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Saturday Observer (Brisbane, Qld. : 1904 - 1924), Sat 17 Dec 1910, Page 1
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