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+ Footwear manufacturing
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86/339 Shoe size measure stick, boxwood/brass, Ullathorne & Co., England, 1890-1910

Production Notes include information about the design, manufacture and marketing of an object. Production notes
Ullathorne & Co, were a leather shoe mercery, grindery and general merchants. Their head office was in London, with branches in Birmingham, Yorkshire and Melbourne, Victoria.
Size sticks were adjustable foot measurers used by the boot and shoe maker.
History Notes include facts about what has happened to an object since manufacture. This could include who owned it and how it was used (provenance). It may also describe any cultural meanings with which it may have become associated. History notes
Purchased from the Cobweb antique shop

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Description
Shoe size measure stick, boxwood/brass, Ullathorne & Co., England, 1890-1910.
A shoe size measuring stick in boxwood, which folds at an elbow joint with two brass hinges. The stick features two scales of shoe sizes divided at the elbow joint; 1-13 and 1-14. The stick features a 12 inch scale on the outside, a folding up heel rest at one end, with a brass hinge and a sliding toe marker.

Maker: Ullathorne & Co; England; 1890 - 1910

Maker: Ullathorne & Co; Melbourne, Victoria; 1890 - 1910


Owner: The Cobweb; Malvern, Victoria
Marks
Maker on reverse after the numerals on the 12 inch scale, stamped into wood, "ULLATHORNE & CO 4"
The Registration Number of an object is a unique identifying number applied by the museum at the point of acquisition. Current numbering format comprises the year of acquisition, followed by a sequential number. For example, '2007/45' is the Registration Number that represents the 45th acquisition in the year 2007. Registration number
86/339
Production date
1890 - 1910
Height
80 mm
Width
390 mm
Depth
25 mm

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Acquisition credit line
Purchased 1986
Subjects:
+ Footwear manufacturing


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