Vintage horseshoe shaped box for storing detachable collars. Two collars included.
Brown leather collar box has a tooled horseshoe design on the lid, with the text "Good Luck" and "Collars". The box is lined with blue cotton and hinged with a leather flap. Closes with a push latch or tuck lock, stamped with the catch brand - Tucktite, and the patent number 234004/24, indicating that's it's a British mechanism made in 1924. Also stamped "English Make".
Two wing tip collars are included - one is starched stiff as a board and appears to have lived in this box for a long time - very faintly stamped "Aust. Patent Hudson - 24/6/24". The brand is illegible.
The second collar is a cotton collar of later make, possibly 1950s, stamped "Boomerang - London Stores Ltd. - Opposite GPO", which was a Melbourne store. Also marked as an Imperial Dress collar, and bears the owner's name: McCoy, as laundry markings.
Measurements
Box - 18 x 17 x 8 cm (7 x 6.75 x 3.25")
Stiff collar - size 15, 4 cm wide (1.5")
Soft collar - size 17, 4.5 cm wide (1.75")
Condition
Box is in good condition - some wear to the leather hinge, but still intact and functional. A few tiny white spots on the lid.
Both collars have some wear to the area where the wing tip folds back, as shown in photos. Worse on the Boomerang collar. The Boomerang collar also has some yellow marks.
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