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Tweezers from Traveling Dressing Case Tweezers
This is a tweezers. It was retailed by Asprey & Son Co.. It is dated 1875 and we acquired it in 1984. Its medium is mother-of-pearl, steel, brass. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
Travel dressing case with fittings
Made by Asprey & Son
London, England, 1875
Rosewood, silver, glass, brass, mother-of-pearl, silk, leather
Gift of Danny J. H. Kauffman, 1984-133-1/16
Travel cases became popular during the eighteenth century when the Grand Tour was an essential part of a young man's education. As travel became easier and more popular throughout the nineteenth century, the popularity of stylish travel cases grew. Thus a kind of combined traveling and dressing case evolved, often fitted with small safes and a writing desk. Asprey received honorable mention at the Great Exhibition of 1851 for its design and manufacture of such cases.
This object was
donated by
Danny J. H. Kauffman.
It is credited Gift of Danny J. H. Kauffman.
Its dimensions are
L x W: 10.5 × 1.2 cm (4 1/8 × 1/2 in.)
It has the following markings
Unmarked
Cite this object as
Tweezers from Traveling Dressing Case Tweezers; Retailed by Asprey & Son Co. (United Kingdom); England; mother-of-pearl, steel, brass; L x W: 10.5 × 1.2 cm (4 1/8 × 1/2 in.); Gift of Danny J. H. Kauffman; 1984-133-16
