Elastic band
Category
Desktop & office
Date
Unknown
Materials
rubber
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 741543.2.6
Summary
The single elastic band that has become twisted and brittle contained in 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.
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to The National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.