Tape Measure with Stanhope Viewer
1859-1889
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Tape Measure with Stanhope Viewer
1859-1889
Physical Qualities
Vegetable ivory, linen, glass, brass, ivory, 1 5/8 x 1 1/4 x 3/4 in. (4.1 x 3.2 x 1.9 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Gloria B. and Herbert M. Katzenberg, Baltimore
Object Number
2013.128
Wind-in tape measure of vegetable ivory, or wood in cotton-barrel shape with piercings in diamond patterns separated by piercing in straight lines. Tape wraps around ivory or bone winder with round opening in the top. The ivory winder has a Stanhope viewer with printed picture and glass plug missing.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2013; Gloria Katzenberg, Baltimore, by purchase, 1971; London
Johnson, Eleanor. Needlework and Embroidery Tools. Buckinghamshire, England: Shire Publications, 1999, illus. p. 24, bottom (similar) but of dark wood.
Rogers, Gay Ann. 1983 An Illustrated History of Needlework Tools, (similar) p. 128, plate 92.
Rogers, Gay Ann. 1983 An Illustrated History of Needlework Tools, (similar) p. 128, plate 92.
