A Tiffany and Co. Sterling Presentation Urn to Captain James T. Watkins, Pacific Mail Steamship Company, by the New Almaden Company, 1860 Bearing Tiffany's 550 Broadway mark to the underside, presented by the New Almaden Company to James T. Watkins in 1860. Watkins was a prominent Pacific Mail Steamship Company commander and among the best-known steamship captains on the Pacific Coast. The reverse is engraved with a depiction of one of his vessels, approximately 2,166 grams 13 3/4 x 8 1/2 x 7 in. (34.9 x 21.6 x 17.8 cm.)

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