Staples box
Category
Desktop & office
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card & Metal
Measurements
95 x 45 mm
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Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 638609
Summary
Yellow cardboard box ‘THE HOTCHKISS NON-CLOGGING STAPLE/ Patented/ June 20/ 1911’ (complete with a few lines of staples). All over advertisement in black and red, including ‘FOR EXPORT ONLY/ MADE IN U.S.A.’ and ‘THE E.H.HOTCHKISS COMPANY/ NORWALK, CONN., U.S.A./ Sole Manufacturers of the/ HOTCHKISS AUTOMATIC PAPER FASTENERS and STAPLES FOR SAME/ NONE GENUINE WITHOUT OUR REGISTERED TRADE MARK’ etc.
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.
Marks and inscriptions
‘THE HOTCHKISS NON-CLOGGING STAPLE/ Patented/ June 20/ 1911’ (complete with a few lines of staples). All over advertisement in black and red, including ‘FOR EXPORT ONLY/ MADE IN U.S.A.’ and ‘THE E.H.HOTCHKISS COMPANY/ NORWALK, CONN., U.S.A./ Sole Manufacturers of the/ HOTCHKISS AUTOMATIC PAPER FASTENERS and STAPLES FOR SAME/ NONE GENUINE WITHOUT OUR REGISTERED TRADE MARK’