DESK PAD, brown leather
H2014.131
.1] Brown, tooled, leather desk blotting pad, decorated on the rear with spade shapes interlocking and pitted decoratively around them. The front has four tooled leather corners to secure blotting paper and a sheet is glued to the base.. 'Tick, Tock, a mouse ran up the clock/one, two, three o'clock, the mouse ran/down the clock' written in a child's hand at the bottom of the blotter. 'FJA' is tooled into the top left hand hinge.[.2] A white sheet of blotting paper fits into the hinged corners. [.3] Photograph, black and white of baby daughter Wendy who died in Japan in 1920 from diphtheria. She's wearing a smocked dress and holding a flower to her nose.
Department:
History DepartmentCollection
| Accession Number: | H2014.131 |
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| Accession Date: | 13 Mar 2015 |
| Acquisition Year: | 2012 |
| Credit: | Honoria Hassell Anderson and Patricia Anderson Wright Collection |
Material
| Leather | Leather, paper | 0 - Whole |
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| Paper |
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Measurement
| length | 445mm |
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| width | 286mm |
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| depth | 1cm |
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| length | 205mm |
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| width | 155mm |
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