- Object name(s):
- lace-making equipment; carriage/leavers
- Brief description:
- Leavers type whipper carriage with standard hole cut for a circular bobbin and additional cut hole at the top. Levers carriage only, spring missing.
- Collection:
- Nottingham Museums
- Acquisition date:
- [09.1878?]
- Acquisition method:
- purchase
- Acquisition note:
- The vendor Alfred Brown was the son of the inventor of the bobbin and carriage Robert Brown.
- Acquisition source:
- [Brown/Mr Alfred?]
- Associated concept:
- 4.5391 LACE MANUFACTURE
- Association note:
- Chapman, Stanley D. and Uppadine, Sheila M. (1967) “Felkin’s History of the Machine-Wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufactures,” Centenary Edition, David & Charles: Newton Abbot, pp. 156-61: references an Alfred Brown who is the son of Robert Brown (see NCM 1879-135, 138).
- Condition:
- Good=fair [pitted]
- Dimension:
- 98 x 84 x 1mm
- Material:
- steel
- Object name:
- lace-making equipment; carriage/leavers
- Object number:
- NCM 1879-158
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/0686a438-15a6-3b42-ac13-34d98c16fd6b, Nottingham Museums, CC BY
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