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Box for Lantern Slides with Wooden Dividers (Empty), Belonging to Miss Willmott, Early 20th Century

Inventory Number 11666


Item type
Object
Provenance
Came with Miss Ellen Willmott's lantern slide collection. Afterwards used by F. Sherwood Taylor.
Primary inscriptions
Ivory plaque: 'E. Wilmot. / Warley Place.' [the spelling is incorrect]; printed label on lid: 'Lot 980'; 4 MS labels on lid in the hand of F. Sherwood Taylor: 'Title pages & extracts', 'Microscopes', 'Microscope Preparations', 'Old Maps'.
Object type
Box
Inventory No
11666

Description

Semi-fitted wooden box with leather strap and ivory name plate. Intended for standard three-and-a-quarter-inch square lantern slides. Empty except for fifteen wooden dividers this is more than could be fitted into this box. Presumably Miss Willmott's slides have been removed so that the box could be re-used by F. Sherwood Taylor (Curator of MHS 1940-50) for his own or the Museum's slides; found empty in the 1980s.