Celluloid Cuff
date: label: Date made
content: ca. 1926 (patented registered)
label: Date made
content: ca. 1926 (patent date)
name: label: maker
content: Parsons & Parsons Company
notes: label: Description
content: In 1898, the brothers Fred W., Ernest, and Arthur H. Parsons acquired the Parsons Collar Company, a firm that their cousin, F. M. Parsons, had formed some years earlier. One inscription on this celluloid cuff reads "KANT KRACK / TRADEMARK / THE PARSONS & PARSONS CO. / CLEVELAND, OHIO.” Another reads “PATENTED AUG. AUG. 31 - 1926 / MADE OF NOWILTEX MATERIAL.” Yet another reads "VOX / 10."
label: Description
content: Ref: Ernest P. Parsons, “Collar,” U.S. Patent 1,598,500 (Aug. 31, 1926), assigned to Parsons and Parsons of Cleveland, Ohio.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cleveland
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Celanese Plastics Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.334552
label: catalog number
content: 334552
label: accession number
content: 310799
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Celluloid Cuff
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.5 cm x 27.1 cm; 3 3/8 in x 10 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 10 5/8 in x 3 1/4 in; .635 cm x 26.9875 cm x 8.255 cm