Package of Lighthouse Brand Hand-Sewing Needles
date: label: date made
content: 1939 - 1945
notes: label: Description
content: Hand sewing needle package. Blue and white paper packet with blue grey interior. Cut in form of a cross with slits so as to be self fastening. Label: "Made in England, War Time Package, Pre-War Quality, English LIGHTHOUSE Brand Needles, Sharps 5/10". Unattached black paper with attached black cloth strip into which are inserted 20 Sheffield steel needles.
label: Description
content: Outside Front: Made in England / War Time Package / Pre-War/ Quality / English /LIGHTHOUSE / Brand / Needles / Sharps 5/10
label: Description
content: Outside Back, left flap: English Needles
label: Description
content: Outside Back, right flap: Manufactured From / Best Sheffield Steel
label: Description
content: Inside Top Flap: Time The Test / Trade Mark / Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.
label: Description
content: Inside Bottom Flap: Made And /Warranted / by / Morris & / Yoemans Ltd. / Astwood Bank / Redditch
label: Description
content: England
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United Kingdom: England
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Needlework Tools
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0048.029
label: accession number
content: 2002.0048
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0048.029
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Needles, package
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (packet material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth (packet material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (needles material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 1 5/16 in; 5.3975 cm x 3.33375 cm