Box
Category
Desktop & office
Date
Unknown
Materials
Card, paper, rubber, metal and stone.
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 741543.2
Summary
A small two part cardboard box of 'THE TOWER PAPER FASTENERS' split pins and an elastic band, a seed, two small stones, three drawing pins and one needle. Kept in a gold and blue metal tin with hinged lid marked 'The Allenburys GLYCERINE AND BLACKCURRANT PASTILLES.' with a metal triangle with two metal balls that meet at the top. The box is made of white cardboard with a lift off top. The top has a white stick on label that would have originally run all the way around the box but has been separated down the two short edges when first opened. A burgundy and white design is printed on the top with 'THE TOWER PAPER FASTENERS.' over the pictures of six split pins decreasing in size from left to right with 'S6', 'S5', 'S4', 'S3', 'S2', 'S1' to the right of each sequentially. Over this is a further smaller white stick on label obscuring '....R PAPER..' of the title with the name and address 'A CRAYMER Moorgate Hall, 149 Moorgate London, E.C.' in black. On the right and left short edge's of the lid is the top half of a double line border inside of which is printed '1 Gross No. S2.' in the same burgundy print, both long edges are blank. On the base of the box is the corresponding section of the wrap around white label on the lid. Along each of the short edges is the bottom section of the double lined border and both long edges are blank. On the base itself the label over laps with a burgundy printed circle with ' . TOWER . BRAND' written within it, the circle is made up of a double line with an inner double lined circle. In the centre is a cross in a four prop propeller style and dots at each prop end and in the four quarters. The single elastic band has become twisted and brittle. The two small stones are of the same red material, one is slightly larger than the other. Three drawing pins are of two designs. The first two are silver in colour with the pin cut from the top leaving a hole in the centre. Embossed into the top of these pins are the words 'WAVERLEY WORK ENG. No 1'. The third pin is brass with the pushed through the top creating a small raised circle in the centre surrounded by six embossed scallops with a dash line in the centre of each creating a flower like design. A number of size two unused brass split pins, original to the box.