Object Details
- Whitehead and Hoag Company
- Description (Brief)
- An advertising novelty for American Saw & Mfg. Co., maker of Lenox saws. The ruler is a twelve-inch folding ruler made of ivory-grained celluloid. It's marked in inches and centimeters.
- Description
- Folding 12-inch celluloid ruler marked in inches and centimeters, with inscriptions that read “AMERICAN SAW & MFG. CO. / SPRINGFIELD, MASS., U.S.A.” and “LENOX / HACK / SAWS.” Inscriptions on the back identify Lenox as “The Blade in the Plaid Box.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1915-1930
- ID Number
- 2006.0098.1700
- catalog number
- 2006.0098.1700
- accession number
- 2006.0098
- Object Name
- ruler
- Physical Description
- cellulose nitrate (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.5 cm x 32.4 cm x .2 cm; in x 12 3/4 in x 1/16 in
- overall: 1 in x 5 3/16 in x 1/8 in; 2.54 cm x 13.17625 cm x .3175 cm
- place made
- United States: New Jersey, Newark
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Celluloid
- Advertising
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1348362
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-a129-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
