Sewing Box with Implements
1850-1900
Physical Qualities
Leather, glass, metal, 2 3/8 x 5 in. (6 x 12.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Gloria B. and Herbert M. Katzenberg, Baltimore
Object Number
2012.608
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2012; Gloria Katzenberg, Baltimore
Inscribed: On bottom of case is a red rotex label "141". Within the case is a package of needles in a black paper wrapper. This has the following labels: 1st Label (Printed on white paper attached to outside): "H. MILWARD/&/SONS/PATENT HELIX/NEEDLES"/ "SHARPS/8/PATENT WRAPERS/J.E. MILWARD/SOLE AGENT/1857" 2nd Label (Printed on white paper attached to inside fold): "PATENTED/IN GREAT BRITAIN/May 7th1857/AND IN THE/ UNITED STATES/April 19th 1859" 3rd Label (Printed in silver ink on black paper inside): "CLARK'S ONT/Trade Mark" 4th Label (Printed in silver ink on black paper inside the next fold): "USE CLARKS ONT/Trade Mark"
