American Nonotuck Silk Co. Corticelli Teachers' Silk Culture Cabinet related_ch2334-35 5 Height 24

5 Height 24

MAKER Maciel Silver Factory (Mexico City

1787-1860) by descent to the present owner

Its Technic and History

American Nonotuck Silk Co. Corticelli Teachers' Silk Culture Cabinet related_ch2334-35 5 Height 24DETAILS An antique cherrywood, glass topped specimen box from the Corticelli Silk Mills. It is fitted with bottles of preserved silk worms in their various life stages and examples of both raw and finished silk threads. Used for educational purposes by teachers. LITERATURE Silk: Its Origin, Culture, and Manufacture, (The Corticelli Silk Mills, Florence, Massachusetts, 1911), page 44, illustrated PLACE OF ORIGIN United States MAKER Nonotuck Silk