Specification of John Tonkin Cocking
Subtitle: plastic material for splints, &c
Publisher: Great Seal Patent Office
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Splints
Description: Patent for a material made of "hair, wool, fur, cotton and other animal and vegetable fibre, felted together, and afterwards made rigid by a mixture of shellac, resin, thusk, borax, and water".
Notes: Cover title.

At head of title: A.D. 1871, 31st August. No. 2295.

"John Tonkin Cocking, of Penzance, in the county of Cornwall, hat manufacturer".