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Title:
Royal Navy issue sewing kit ('housewife')
Object name(s):
personal effects; sewing kit; house wife
Brief description:
Royal Navy issue sewing kit (known as the 'housewife'): dark blue 'apron' with pockets containing cotton, needles and buttons. At the top is a material name tag which reads 'H.R. Clutterbuck'. This can be rolled up into a bundle and fastened with the two tags attached.
Collection:
National Museum of the Royal Navy
Associated concept:
Second World War (1939-1945)
Associated person:
Clutterbuck, Howard, Richard (DSC)
Object name:
personal effects; sewing kit; house wife
Object number:
RNSM 2001/1434/1

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/f9fc102a-499a-35bf-9bff-cb55b947f516

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/f9fc102a-499a-35bf-9bff-cb55b947f516, National Museum of the Royal Navy, CC BY-NC

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