Madras Handkerchief
c.1855 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Length of cotton handkerchiefs, white, red, and blue checks, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, c.1855
Object details
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| Brief description | Length of cotton handkerchiefs, white, red, and blue checks, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, c.1855 |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'MADRAS PRODUCTS. / XXX. / No. 5 / Piece of Handkerchief, / value Rs. 10-0-0 (Ten), manufactured in MADRAS, by SOOBOO CHETTY, property of the H.E.I.C. [Honorable East India Company] / R 248'. (Original paper label attached to object) |
| Object history | Transferred from the India Museum in 1879. India Museum Slip book entry: 'Cotton Kerchiefs / Madras / 55 / Head & Shoulders'. |
| Bibliographic reference | Entry in the catalogue of the Madras Central Committee for the Universal Exhibition to Be Held at Paris in 1855. College of Fort St. George, 1855:
Index Number: 448 / Progressive Number: XXX. / Number of Articles: 1 / Name of Article: Pieces of Madras Handekrchieves, each piece containing 8 Handkerchieves ... / Quantity and Number: .. / 8 / Name of the Locacility in the Madras Presidency where produced: Madras / Name of the Maker or the Merchant from whom purchased: Ordered by the Committee to be purchased through E. Lecot, Esq., Manufactured at Madras by Sooboo Chetty / To whom belonging, by whom exhibited and how to be disposed of after the Exhibition: Do. [H.E.I.C.] / Price at which procurable, per Rs.-A.-P.: each piece 10 Rs.; Rs.80-0-0 / No. of the Case in which Packed: No.21. / In what Vessel shipped: Do. do. do. [Shipped per Gratitude]' |
| Other number | 924 - India Museum Catalogue (IS) Number |
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| Accession number | 4968(IS) |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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