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Title: Collecting Figural Tape Measures
Condition: New
Author: Elizabeth & Douglas Arbittier
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0887408664
EAN: 9780887408663
ISBN: 9780887408663
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Genre: Architecture & Antiques
Topic: Technology & Engineering
Release Date: 13/01/1997
Description: Tape measures, those useful sewing tools in imaginative cases, are now becoming a collecting passion. Presented here are over 700 tape measures in brass, wood, celluloid and porcelain figural shapes, dating back to the 1820s and up to the present. Over 500 color photographs show tape measures in hundreds of variations from animals and birds to people and their houses, and the captions describe their particular winding mechanisms. Each measure is also given a value range
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 499g
Release Year: 1997

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