Two Antique Fourteen-Karat Gold Pocket Watches with Gold-Filled Lady's Watch Chain, late 19th century, American, including an 1899 Waltham hunter case watch, serial number 7148715, size 16, fifteen-jewel movement, with engine-turned Brooklyn Watch Case Co. case, monogrammed "AWS", overall dia. 2"; an 1891 Elgin hunter case watch, serial number 4570820, size 6, seven-jewel movement, with an engraved Brooklyn Watch Case Co. case with bucolic scene, dia. 1-1/2"; and a gold-filled lady's long watch chain with black enamel and split pearl slide, l. 53". The interior back cover of the Waltham watch contains a presentation inscription to A. Wesley Skardon from his mother on the occasion of his 21st birthday, March 18, 1899. Ambrose Wesley Skardon of New Orleans was the son of Ambrose Wilson Skardon and his wife Susanne Woelper. He never married, and died in New Orleans on December 13, 1954.