Clothes Brush
date: label: date made
content: ca 1910
name: label: maker
content: Loonen, Charles
notes: label: Description
content: Clothes brush with a celluloid handle, and a “Loonen France” inscription. F. Loonen was a French 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). He, in turn, established sales rooms in London and New York and elsewhere and around 1900, a 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: 2006.0098.1445
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.1445
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
objectType: label: Object Name
content: clothes brush
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: boar bristles (bristles material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 cm x 8.5 cm x .5 cm; 1 15/16 in x 3 3/8 in x 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 4 in x 2 1/8 in; 1.27 cm x 10.16 cm x 5.3975 cm