RULER FROM NECESSAIRE
Creator(s): Jos. SauerWein & Company (Jeweler)
Currently in storage
About this object
The compartment at the back are a hairbrush and a clothes brush with boule decoration on the backs. Also a folding metric measure in ivory or bone. The ruler is made from thin pieces of bone. It has some measurements along its sides. It folds up into 4 inch pieces and is connected by small nails.
- Object name:
- RULER FROM NECESSAIRE
- Made from:
- Ivory -- nails
- Made in:
- Vienna, Austria
- Date made:
- 1845
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 34.21.32
- Class:
- WOOD
- Signature marks:
- NUMBER Numbers for inches [On edges]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973