Schoenner Flat Case of Drawing Instruments
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: maker
content: Schoenner, Georg
notes: label: Description
content: This wooden case is covered with black leather and lined with blue satin and velvet. It has a steel locking pin. Masking tape across the hinge end of the case is marked: A. C. CROWNFIELD. The set includes:
label: Description
content: 1) 6-1/8" German silver drawing compass with bendable legs and removable pencil point, pen point, and extension bar. Inside one leg is marked: SCHOENNER, GERMANY.
label: Description
content: 2) 5-3/4" German silver and steel fixed-leg dividers. Inside one leg is marked: SCHOENNER, GERMANY III.
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content: 3) 3-1/4" German silver and steel bow pencil, bow pen, and bow dividers.
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content: 4) 1-3/8" metal cylindrical case with three pencil leads.
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content: 5) 5-1/4" wood, German silver, and steel drawing pen. The end is marked in gold: SCHOENNER (/) GERMANY.
label: Description
content: The joint tightener is missing. For Schoenner company history, see 1989.0305.05. Ruth E. Crownfield, the widow of Albert C. Crownfield Jr., a mechanical engineer from Mohawk, N.Y., donated this set of drawing instruments in 1979. The style of marks on these objects and the dates of other instruments received from this donor suggest that this set was made around the 1930s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Bavaria, Nuremberg
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Drafting, Engineering
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Drawing Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ruth E. Crownfield
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0868.01
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0868.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0868
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing instruments, set of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: german silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.5 cm x 21.6 cm x 10.5 cm; 19/32 in x 8 1/2 in x 4 1/8 in