Pick of the week: 18th century pocket watch by Henry Cowper bought for £1 proves a profitable investment
An 18th century pocket watch by Gibraltarian goldsmith Henry Cowper emerged for sale at Rowley’s auction house in Ely. It belonged to a Lincolnshire private collector who bought it over 50 years ago for £1 from a former resident of the Rock.
Cowper was probably born in Gibraltar in c.1735-36 and lived and worked there for much of the 18th…