Watch depicts Winfield Scott

[Mike Serpa]

Heritage Auctions: "Winfield Scott: A Rare Silver Pocket Watch Depicting Him on Horseback. The entire design is engraved. "General Scott" appears at the bottom and a row of uniformed troops, rifles at the ready, forms a background for the general's rearing steed. The opposite side features a porcelain dial with a central image of an unidentified port city. This style of watch did not have a hinged cover over the dial, but remarkably the fragile high-domed crystal has survived intact. The watch is engraved inside with the name of the engraver, "Bautte Geneva". ...While the image of Scott is a military one, this watch could as easily date from either the Mexican War or his 1852 presidential candidacy..." SOLD for 1,673.00 in 2007.

https://historical.ha.com/itm/polit...geDesc-052317&tab=ArchiveSearchResults-012417


A painting of Winfield Scott in 1855 by Robert Walter Weir shows Scott heavier than on the watch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfield_Scott

 

[JOHN42768]

An early rendition of him for sure.

 

[John Hartwell]

The jacket of John Eisenhower's biography depicts America's first truly professional soldier about the time of the Mexican War: