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

Inventory Number 11667


Item type
Object
Provenance
Came with Miss Ellen Willmott's lantern slide collection. Afterwards used by F. Sherwood Taylor.
Primary inscriptions
Ivory plaque: 'Miss Willmott, / Warley Place'; MS label on lid 'Lot 914' [? number barely legible]; 2 MS labels on lid in the hand of F. Sherwood Taylor: '... [torn away] Laboratories' and 'Tradescantiana'.
Object type
Lantern slide
Inventory No
11667

Description

Semi-fitted wooden box with leather strap and ivory name plate. Intended for standard three-and-a-quarter-inch square lantern slides. Empty. 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.