Object Details
- Description
- This 5-3/8" steel and ivory drawing pen is marked on one side of the pen point: D. R. P. 40967. On the other side, it is marked: BREVETÉES (/) S. G. D. G. These marks mean that the maker had received German and French patents on the pen after Germany established its unified patent law in 1877. Compare to 1978.2110.08 and 1978.2110.09.
- The previous owner collected more than 1,200 hand tools and machine tools and displayed them at his family's building company in Baltimore, Md.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- The John R. Gerwig, Jr., Collection
- after 1877
- ID Number
- 1977.1101.0098
- accession number
- 1977.1101
- catalog number
- 1977.1101.0098
- Object Name
- pen
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- ivory (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 cm x 14 cm x 1 cm; 13/32 in x 5 1/2 in x 13/32 in
- place made
- Europe
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Pens and Pencils
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Drawing Instruments
- Drafting, Engineering
- Record ID
- nmah_904295
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-1a54-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
