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White and clear plastic box, with padding
White and clear plastic box, with padding

White and clear plastic box, with padding

Date1950-1990
Object number00042863
NamePlastic box
MediumPlastic, padding
DimensionsOverall: 19 x 68 x 54 mm, 12.6 g
ClassificationsTools and equipment
Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from the George Family and Adrian Jackson
HistoryA plush lined display case containing assorted nuclei, half pearls, including 9 cruciform blisters, and assorted implements used for seeding and measuring pearls - no. 3 may be a William Saville-Kent wire. The tools have not been used, need to be bent up to shape - one blister has a nut and bolt - similar to S-K technique of attaching nucleus - some sphericals gone wrong, some good samples, a box of delaminated ones - No. 12 is possibly unique, P. penguin. Information given by Nick George.