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Artist/Maker	Marples and Beasley (maker)
Place of origin	Birmingham (made)

This logo, designed by Max Field Bush in 1936 and used extensively in Spratts advertising was adapted to form a piece of jewellery in the 1950s and given away by the company on the submission of a number of tokens gathered from the packaging of Spratt's products.

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Categories	Advertising Animals and Wildlife Calligraphy Jewellery Metalwork
Object type	Brooch
Title	Brooch (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Chromed metal, enamelled. Chrome Metal Enamel Stamping Enamelling
Brief description	Brooch, chromed metal, enamelled, advertising Spratt's cat food, Birmingham, made by Marples and Beasley, ca.1950-1960.
Physical description	Brooch, chromed metal, enamelled with the letters SPRATTS formed into the calligram of a cat. The technique of using letter forms to create the shape of an object is known as a calligram. Pin on the reverse.
Dimensions	Height: xcm Width: xcm Depth: xcm
Production type	Mass produced
Marks and inscriptions	SPRATTS (The letters formed to shape the outine of a cat.)
Production	Advertising Ephemera
Subject depicted	Cat
Summary	This logo, designed by Max Field Bush in 1936 and used extensively in Spratts advertising was adapted to form a piece of jewellery in the 1950s and given away by the company on the submission of a number of tokens gathered from the packaging of Spratt's products.
Collection	Metalwork Collection
Accession number	CIRC.332-1976

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Record created	June 24, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O381838/brooch-brooch-marples-and-beasley/

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