Celluloid Crochet Hook
date: label: date made
content: ca 1915
name: label: maker
content: Boye Needle Co.
notes: label: Description
content: The inscriptions on this celluloid crochet hook read “‘BOYE’ G SAME AS SIZE 5” and “NON INFLAMMABLE / PAT 2024794 U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Gustav A. Carlson, “Crochet Hook,” U.S. Patent 2,024,794 (Dec. 17, 1935), assigned to The Boye Needle Company of Chicago.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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: 2006.0098.1740
label: accession number
content: 2006.0098
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0098.1740
objectType: label: Object Name
content: crochet hook
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cellulose nitrate (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13.8 cm x .4 cm; 5 7/16 in x 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 7/16 in x 3/16 in; 13.81125 cm x .47625 cm