Another undated clipping I found in my papers.

Headline: ODD WATCH COLLECTION IS FASCINATING
"Lincoln, England (UPI)_ Odd things are tucked into odd corners all over England and one of the most unexpected in John Usher's watches.
One is shaped like a beetle. You open its iridescent wings to tell the time, and set the hour using a black button under the rose diamond eyes on its solid gold neck.
There's another watch whose case is shaped and painted like a strawberry and another inside a tiny mandolin 2.5 inches long -- you can see its balance wheel if your eyes are good, through the sound hole under its gold strings.
One watch is enameled with a minute picture of "The Meeting Coriolanus and His Mother." Another shows three children hunting butterflies. Two of Usher's watches are so small they are set into finger rings.
Antique Collection -- This glittering collection of 68 antique watches -- one of the finest in the country -- was compiled by a Lincoln jeweler named James Ward Usher.
Usher made clocks himself. Several are in the Lincoln art gallery which bears his name. Among other things, Usher was a high-class pack rat.
He collected Chinese export porcelain and miniature portraits and delicate enamel boxes. He collected relics of Nelson and Napoleon and porcelain figures, and English silver and Charlotte Bronte's thimble case. Not to mention the watches.
When he died in 1921, Usher not only bequeathed his scattershot collection to his native city, 136 miles north of London, but left money to build a gallery. The Usher Gallery, opened in 1928, is still Lincoln's main museum.
Usher's watches are its special pride. They hang in jeweled, gleaming rows, each not only a rerity but a beautiful work of art.
"Pocket watches were extremely rare until the craft of watchmaking became more widespread during the 17th century," says a gallery catalogue.
Most of these watches, their cases lushly enameled or of densely worked gold, date from the 18th to mid-19th centuries. But the earliest -- set in a hollowed out rock crystal -- was made in 1620.
Inaccurate -- Early pocket watches were so inaccurate that only an hour hand was provided -- and dials were marked off only in quarter hours. Several of Usher's watches have only one hand.
"Dumb repeaters" are queer features of several others. These are watches which strike the hour, like a grandfather clock, but do so almost silently. Instead of hitting a bell, the hammer strikes the watch case itself."

I think my father-in-law must have saved this one. His father, Leroy D. Usher, Jr., was a watchmaker and jeweler who lived in Auburn, MA, so the subject would have caught his attention.
I think I would enjoy visiting this museum!
Genie Usher