Name/Title
Post Office Twine Holder, 1900Entry/Object ID
1981.94.1Description
Acc. No. 81.94.1
Subject Category: Post Office
Date or period: 1900
Object: Twine holder
Description: It is cast iron, bee-hive shaped with spiraling ridges encircling the body....and meet at the top opening. The bottom can be removed to refill it with twine string. It is black.
Size: 6½ inches high and 7½ in. circumference.
History of Object: old fashioned twine holder for holding twine to tie up letters Alameda Post Office, 1900.
Acquired from: Ford SamuelsInterpretative Labels
Label
3/17/2020 MvL:
current generic post-office related label:
POST OFFICE
Early objects used at the
Alameda Post Office
including emblems that
would be attached to
the postmen's caps.
On bottom of object are remnants of an old accession label:
TWINE HOLDER.
Donor
MR. FORD SAMUEL.
3257 FERNSIDE.
(in pencil:)
USED IN POST OFFICE
CIRCA 1900
[Alameda] Historical [Society]
