Box with Pins
Description
Small wooden box with hinged lid. Closes at the front with a brass clip. Inside there are six grooved sections for holding different sized pins. There are four main different pin sizes, slightly mixed up. The second section from the left has small pieces of foam. The sections are numbered top and bottom, possibly with the sizes of the pins.
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Subject person
Classification
Credit line
Ken
Fox
was
a
prolific
bug
collector
throughout
the
Taranaki
region
and
beyond
during
the
second
half
of
the
1900s.
He
worked
closely
with
other
local
collectors
such
as
Peter
Peckham.
This
box
of
pins,
used
for
setting
and
mounting
bugs
for
display,
belonged
to
Ken
Fox.
Accession number
PA2016.137
Collection type
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