Object number
58/83
Description
This wooden box with a detachable lid is a reel box, and can hold up to four sewing reels. 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 reel box is stamped in three places with images of East Grinstead, West Sussex.
Physical description
1 reel box: wood; good condition
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 reel box was acquired in this way.
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External document
- L:\MERL\Objects\JISC 2012\60 series negatives\60_2751.tif - High resolution image
