Box base
Category
Desktop & office
Date
Unknown
Materials
card, paper, ink, glue
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 741543.2.2
Summary
The base to a small two part cardboard box of 'THE TOWER PAPER FASTENERS' containing 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. 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.
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to The National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.