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- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- metal; ivory
- Catalogue Number
- 105.06.0030 a,b
- Description
- A letter knife and stamp box of brass enamelled with white and black and a carved ivory elephant atop each. (a) letter knife, plain, double edged, dull, pointed steel blade. Solid brass handle enamelled black on bottom, and black cloisonne outlined with white on top. Carved three dimensional eleph…
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- Title
- Desk Set
- Date
- 1920 – 1930
- Material
- metal; ivory
- Dimensions
- 2.8 x 2.3 x 23.2 cm
- Description
- A letter knife and stamp box of brass enamelled with white and black and a carved ivory elephant atop each. (a) letter knife, plain, double edged, dull, pointed steel blade. Solid brass handle enamelled black on bottom, and black cloisonne outlined with white on top. Carved three dimensional elephant with curled trunk walks atop handle.(b) stamp box rectangular brass box with flat lid enamelled with black cloisanne outlined in white. Carved three dimensional elephant roaring with raised trunk stands atop lid. Lid hinged with piano hinge. Inside of box has slanted bottom separated into three compartments for stamps. Contains one 7 cents Canadian stamp with flying goose.
- Subject
- households
- office
- hobbies
- animal
- elephant
- miniatures
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 105.06.0030 a,b
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- Date
- 1914 – 1915
- Material
- metal; fibre; ivory
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0056 a-d
- Description
- A set of two dog tags, one of metal (a), and one of pressboard (b), along with an ivory elephant (c) on a chain (d) to be worn around the neck. The metal dogtag reads “Major Moore 2 Canada, C.I.N.F., BDE, Staff” and the pressboard tag reads “Hd. O.R.S. 6 Inf. BDE. 2 Canadians, Major P.A. Moore, C.…
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- Title
- Identification Tag
- Date
- 1914 – 1915
- Material
- metal; fibre; ivory
- Dimensions
- 1.5 (c) x 1.0 (c) x 2.2 (c); 42.0 (d) cm
- Description
- A set of two dog tags, one of metal (a), and one of pressboard (b), along with an ivory elephant (c) on a chain (d) to be worn around the neck. The metal dogtag reads “Major Moore 2 Canada, C.I.N.F., BDE, Staff” and the pressboard tag reads “Hd. O.R.S. 6 Inf. BDE. 2 Canadians, Major P.A. Moore, C.O.E.”.
- Subject
- military
- animals, elephant
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.09.0056 a-d
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