Milling Machine Tie Clip
notes: label: Description
content: This tie clip was owned by Eugene B. Johnson (October 18, 1915 - November 22, 2007), who worked for over fifty years in the tool and die manufacturing field. Born on a Michigan farm where his family had worked for over a century, Johnson would spend almost his whole life in Michigan. After working as salesmen at the National Sales Engineering Corporation, he and his brother-in-law Fred Schulz bought that company and started a second company, Johnson-Shulz Machine Sales. Johnson continued to travel to make sales for both companies and retired as the vice president of both. This tie clip has a miniature metallic model of a milling machine (a precise power-driven tool for cutting away material), one of the products that Johnson most frequently sold.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Manufacturing
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Kathleen Johnson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0187.12
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0187.12
label: accession number
content: 2008.0187
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tie clip
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 1 5/8 in x 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 4.1275 cm x 1.905 cm