Raise your glass! Here's to a whimsical reversible antiqued brass panel watch fob, each of the five panels with a different toast or ditty, perhaps a bit inappropriate, as history often is!

- description -

The antique paneled watch fob was once a decorative accessory that gentlemen would wear, clipped their jacket or vest, when they were all dolled up in their glad rags.  
This fob has five reversible panels with different images and/or words on both sides, topped with a clip, a triangular panel, two square panels, another triangular panel and a round medallion at the bottom, all linked together with jump rings.

- fob panels metal - brass with a silver plating
- jump rings and clip - brass
- width - panels 1" (25mm), round medallion 1 1/4" (31mm)
- length - 6" (155mm) including clip

1st panel - triangular - here’s to our wives & sweethearts, may they never meet
- reverse - the American flag.

2nd panel - square - the bubble winked at me and said, I'll miss you brother when you are dead - with a gentleman, sitting in a chair, raising his glass in toast
- reverse - good form but not formality - surrounding a curvy woman

3rd panel - square - wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda the day after - with a well dressed gentleman lifting his glass to a well dressed curvy woman 
- reverse - here’s to love, the only fire against which there is no insurance - with a little winged person  
(both sides of this panel have some rust, or similar, making it hard to see/ read)

bottom panel - triangular - a beer stein with a lid
- reverse - the good die young, here's to your ripe old age

the round medallion - here is your goot healdth und your familys goot healdth and may you all live long und brosber - from the man lounging in his chair, rifle at his side, having difficulty toasting, glass held high.
- reverse - better smoke here than hereafter - with a group of men smoking

I believe the whimsical toasts watch fob chain dates back to between 1890 and 1910, and the turn of the century was a time when attitudes were very different. For 200 years, on Saturday evenings at the Royal Navy mess hall, officers would raise their glasses to the traditional toast "Here's to our wives and sweethearts" to which the unofficial reply was "May they never meet!" It was officially changed in 2013.

Watch fob chains have been popular since the 16th century as a means to connect a pocket watch to a buttonhole or waistcoat so that the pocket watch could quickly be retrieved from the pocket. As time passed, the fobs and fob chains became more decorative, jewelry-like and more of a fashion statement.

This is an antique and it does show signs of age and wear so please study the photos carefully and ask any questions because antiques sales are final - non returnable/refundable

Impressed with history!