RULER FROM NECESSAIRE

Creator(s): Jos. SauerWein & Company (Retailer)

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:

Austria

Date made:

1845

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

34.21.32

Class:

WOOD

Signature marks:

NUMBER on edges: numbers for inches

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973