Wax crayon
George Rowney & Co. Ltd
Category
Desktop & office
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood and wax
Measurements
Box - 80mm length; Crayons 70mm length (max); 10mm length (min)
Place of origin
Rathbone Place
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 660340
Summary
A small wooden box with a loose wooden divided and sliding lid, containing black, red and white academy crayons. Label on lid reads- 'ROYAL/ACADEMY CRAYONS/BLACK, WHITE AND RED/ Manufactured by /GEORGE ROWNEY and Co/51 RATHBONE PLACE, LONDON/ Price sixpence'. Inside the box are two small cylindrical pieces of red crayon, six of white and seven long and two short black ones. Total number of items is twenty
Marks and inscriptions
Underside of lid: JJ/JI
Makers and roles
George Rowney & Co. Ltd, maker