Schoenner Wallet Case of Drawing Instruments
date: label: date made
content: 20th century
name: label: maker
content: Schoenner, Georg
notes: label: Description
content: This folding cardboard case is covered with black leather and lined with green velvet. The front flap is marked: 2089. The Schoenner logo (overlaid S, G, and two intersecting double-headed arrows) is imprinted in silver inside the lid flap. The lid flap also has a red and white sticker marked: Walter (/) Robinson (/) 127 Hawaii (/) Ave. N.E. The set includes:
label: Description
content: 1) 6-1/4" German silver and steel compass with folding legs and removable pencil point, pen point, and extension bar. Inside one leg is marked: C 32. Inside the other leg is marked: SCHOENNER, GERMANY II. The insertion tips of the pencil point, pen point, and extension bar are marked: 32 C. This compass is not marked with patent information that appears on other Schoenner compasses in the collection; compare to 1977.0279.01, 1989.0305.05, and 1977.1101.0097.
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content: 2) 6" German silver and steel dividers with adjustment screw on one leg.
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content: 3) 3-3/8" German silver and steel bow pen, bow pencil, and bow dividers.
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content: 4) 4-1/2"and 5-1/4" ebony, German silver, and steel drawing pencils.
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content: 5) 1-3/8" cylindrical metal case with three pencil leads.
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content: The joint tightener is missing. For Schoenner company history, see 1989.0305.05. The set probably dates to the second quarter of the 20th century.
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 Mrs. Walter Robinson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0350.01
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0350.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0350
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing instruments, set of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
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content: leather (overall material)
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content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: german silver (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
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content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.7 cm x 21.6 cm x 10.5 cm; 1 15/32 in x 8 1/2 in x 4 1/8 in