Offenders broke into a display cabinet at the museum in Market Place, Lavenham between 1pm and 5pm on Tuesday. Two silver antique fob watches, a silver watch chain and a miniature box with ...

By the middle of the eighteenth century, men from a range of professions owned watches. A man wore his watch in his fob, a pocket with a horizontal opening just below the waist of his breeches.

Fob medals, hung from the watch chain, were small badges of status, allegiance or achievement - sometimes only recognisable to others of a group.