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Description: | This particular range of Whitehouse Cox goods reflected, as a marketing ploy, the story of a ship called the 'Metta Catharina' which sank off the coast of Britain in the 1780s. The leather from this ship was excavated during the 1980s and used in the production of leather goods.
A card wallet of black leather, marked 'Russia Calf Made in Great Britain'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Walsall Museums | Rights holder: | Walsall Museums | Subjects: | Walsall Leather Museum Collection | Temporal: | 1989 | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | Whitehouse Cox Ltd. | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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