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Shelfmark: 20076-0000 Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM  (Paris France) Suggestions & Corrections  
Type: instrument
Dimension: L.: 10; Diam.: 2; Mass: 20 g.
 
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Thematic group: Instruments 
Type: artifact
Abstract: Ebony-cased 'housewife'. Spool with four sections for thread, two now containing thread, one white and the other brown. An ivory knob screws into end of spool, closing the hollow central cylinder which was probably used for needles. The spool fits into black case, the upper half of which has its edges bound in ivory and screws into lower half. May have been for Lavoisier's journeys.
 
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name: -
name: Paris
date/range: 1952
date of: donation
epoch: 20 (2°)
name: Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
resp.: owner
name: Paris
date/range: 1760
date of: manufacture
epoch: 18 (2°)