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Curvex Box “Gray Egg” 1950 and later [message #12170]

Thu, 13 February 2020 17:25

DRGM
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Registered: January 2020

Gruen Apprentice

Period : 1950 and later

Watch type : Gruen Curvex

Size : Height 11 cm (4 5/16”), Depth 7 cm (2 ¾”), width 5.4 cm (2 1/8”)

Inventor : Francis E. Blod and Alfred M. Blumenfeld

Patents : US Patent 2,667,967 and US Design Patent 161,898 (both applied on Sep. 21, 1950)

Box maker : Braun-Crystal Manufacturing Co. and BCN Design Products Inc., respectively

Shortly after application of the patents the box was already advertised. Shown here is an ad issued in “The Ohio Daily Express” of October 13, 1950.

The box was sold together with an outer box - it looked like this:

https://jewelry.ha.com/itm/estate-jewelry/watches/gruen-curv ex-precision-gold-filled-watch/a/171820-73052.s

For more photos and for images of the patents see here:

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		Curvex Box “Gray Egg” 1950 and later By: DRGM on Thu, 13 February 2020 17:25
		Re: Curvex Box “Gray Egg” 1950 and later By: Ephemerald on Wed, 19 August 2020 23:15
		Re: Curvex Box “Gray Egg” 1950 and later By: Barney Green on Thu, 20 August 2020 09:45
		Re: Curvex Box “Gray Egg” 1950 and later By: Jenneke on Thu, 20 August 2020 17:18
		Re: Curvex Box “Gray Egg” 1950 and later By: Barney Green on Thu, 20 August 2020 18:27
		Re: Curvex Box “Gray Egg” 1950 and later By: Ephemerald on Thu, 20 August 2020 22:51
		Re: Curvex Box “Gray Egg” 1950 and later By: Barney Green on Fri, 21 August 2020 13:19
		Re: Curvex Box “Gray Egg” 1950 and later By: Ephemerald on Fri, 21 August 2020 18:10
		Re: Curvex Box “Gray Egg” 1950 and later By: Ephemerald on Fri, 21 August 2020 22:40
		Re: Curvex Box “Gray Egg” 1950 and later By: Barney Green on Sat, 22 August 2020 10:52

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