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GUSN-197872
Small cardboard box with blue writing. The box is intricaly folded and each side of the box has an advertisement on it.
boxes (containers)
cardboard
Box
"1/4 DOZ. HOLDS 50 LBS. NO. 27 / MOORE PUSH-LESS HANGERS/ PATENTED IN U.S.A. DEC. 31, 1912 / For Hanging Up Heavy Things / Such as Pictures, Mirrors, etc. / on Wood or Plaster Walls / Without Disfiguring" (Blue writing on cardboard)
"MOORE PUSH-PIN CO. / PHILADELPHIA, Pa. / Manufacturers of / Devices for Hanging Up / Everything Little and Big" (
Blue writing on cardboard
)
"Brass Lacquered Steel Hooks / Tool Tempered Steel Points / No.24 will hold 10lbs. / No.25 will / hold 20 lbs. / No.27 will / hold 50 lbs. / No.28 will hold 100lbs." (
Blue writing on cardboard)
"MADE IN U.S.A. / RIGID / and / DAINTY" (
Blue writing on cardboard)
"10 CENTS" (
Blue writing on cardboard)
"10 CENTS" (Blue writing on cardboard)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Unknown
1 1/4 x 2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.2513.2
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