Container
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
name: label: maker
content: Loonen, Charles
notes: label: Description
content: Cylindrical celluloid container with a “Loonen France “inscription. F. Loonen was a brush maker with a factory in Tracy-le-Mont, a town slightly north of Paris. He won a medal at the International Exhibition held in Paris in 1867, and another at the Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia in 1876. By 1881, the firm was trading as F. Loonen & Son, the son being Charles Loonen (1850-1913). Charles Loonen established sales rooms in London and New York and, around 1900, a brush factory in Osaka, Japan.
label: Description
content: Ref: “UNE GRANDE MANUFACTURE DE BROSSERIE,” Le Pantheon de l’Industrie 24 (1892).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0098.1678
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.1678
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: case
label: Object Name
content: powder shaker
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18.8 cm x 7.5 cm; 7 3/8 in x 2 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 3 in; 19.05 cm x 7.62 cm