Object number
58/77
Description
Egg-shaped box containing a bobbin and needles. An example of Tunbridge ware with landscape scene, ‘Dunstaffnage’.
This egg-shaped wooden box is a needle case, and contains a bobbin and needles. The box opens at the centre into two halves. It is an example of Tunbridge ware – a form of decoratively inlaid woodwork in which of a mosaic of tiny pieces of different coloured woods form a picture. This work was characteristic of Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge, Kent, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This needle case has a landscape scene, below which is the word ‘Dunstaffnage’. The castle at Dunstaffnage, Argyll and Bute, was said to be the historic seat of the Scottish monarchy.
Physical description
1 needle case with bobbins and needles: wood, thread
Archival history
MERL miscellaneous note, Greta Bertram, 3 October 2012 - According to detailed correspondence between the donor and the Museum, the donor purchased numerous objects which he then passed on to MERL. It is unclear whether the needle case was acquired in this way.
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- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_2558.tif - High resolution image
