Brush with Boar Bristles and Celluloid Back
notes: label: Description
content: Clothes brush with celluloid handle and "Imperial Brand" inscription. The Imperial Brush Factory was established in Osaka, Japan, in 1888. The principles were Rioichiro Arai, a Japanese businessman who had worked in the United States since the 1870s, and Richard von Briesen, a German businessman who had come to the United States during the Civil War, imported Imperial brushes into the United States.
label: Description
content: Ref: “A Japanese Industry,” Notions and Fancy Goods 46 (Feb. 1912): 24-26.
label: Description
content: “The Brush Making Industry of Japan,” Brooms, Brushes and Handles 22 (1919): 63-68).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan: Ōsaka, Ōsaka
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Edith R. Meggers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.314637.12605
label: accession number
content: 314637
label: catalog number
content: 314637.12605
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Brush with Celluloid Back
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic, celluloid (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: boar bristles (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16.5 cm x 5.1 cm x 3.8 cm; 6 1/2 in x 2 in x 1 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/2 in x 6 1/2 in x 1 7/8 in; 3.81 cm x 16.51 cm x 4.7625 cm