Crochet Hook
date: label: date made
content: 1915-1925
notes: label: Description
content: Crochet hook has a celluloid handle. The "MEF / 8 / Pat. Aug. 17, 1915 / DIADEM" inscription refers to Mary E. Fitch, a crochet enthusiast of Brookline, Mass., who obtained a design patent on the form.
label: Description
content: Ref: Mary E. Fitch, “Crochet Needle,” U.S. Design Patent 47,718 (Aug. 17, 1915).
label: Description
content: Mary E. Fitch, Filet Crochet with Instructions (Brookline, 1915).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Women Inventors
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: 2006.0098.1749
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.1749
objectType: label: Object Name
content: crochet hook
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: ferrous metal (hook material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.8 cm x 1.3 cm x .3 cm; 4 1/4 in x 1/2 in x 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 9/16 in x 1/4 in; 10.16 cm x 1.42875 cm x .635 cm