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Description: | The packet is a small brown paper envelope stamped in blue ink with: 'Walsall Leather Co. Ltd., 255 Stafford Street, Walsall'. It contains two steel needles, one of which is threaded with white thread, and two steel awl blades. Part of a tool kit belonging to Emily Tinkler, who worked in the Walsall leather trade around the 1920s and 1930s.
A packet containing leather needles and awl blades. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Walsall Museums | Rights holder: | Walsall Museums | Subjects: | Black Country Leather industry | Temporal: | 1920 - 1930 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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