Other Items
To date 29 items registered to or marked W. Avery & Son have been discovered that technically don’t fall into the category of Avery style needle cases. Items are only listed here if a design representation for a metal item was found or the item is known to exist. There are many other design representations or patents registered to W. Avery & Son for paper needle cases, needle wrappers, etc that are not included here because we do not know if they were ever produced.
Photo gallery
1: Left: Patent for a Case for Hair Pins - metal, Design #274366 dated July 11, 1873. Right: Hair Pin Box top view (photo courtesy of David Chatterley).
Left: Hair Pin Box bottom. Right: Hair Pin Box top side view (photos courtesy of David Chatterley).
Left: Hair Pin Box bottom side view (photo courtesy of David Chatterley). 2: Right: Sewing Vice - metal, Design #263783 dated June 27, 1872.
3: Metal Counter Box - metal, Patent #2007 dated July 9, 1867 (photos courtesy of Bunny's Place).
4: Left: Crochet Handle #603 - brass 5: Right: Crochet Handle #604 - brass
6: Left: Crochet Handle #606 - brass (photo courtesy of Bunny's Place). 7: Right: Floral Needle Casket - pasteboard (photo courtesy of Christina Bertrand)
8: Bouquet of Pink Flowers - pasteboard needle card with brass rim - front and back
9: Scottish Boy To the Ladies - pasteboard needle card with brass rim - front and back (photos from eBay).
Scottish Boy To the Ladies - pasteboard needle card with brass rim - interior and interior detail with year established.
Click on the left photo above to see a larger version of it.
10: Boys on Birds To the Ladies - pasteboard needle card with brass rim - front and interior detail (photos courtesy of Lynda Herrod).
11: Left: Boy in Paper Boat - pasteboard needle card with brass rim (this item was sold online years ago with a note indicating W. Avery & Son was listed on the reverse side) 12: Right: Christmas Synoptical - pasteboard needle card with brass rim.
13: Left: Liverpool Exhibition 1886 - mauchlineware 14: Right: Naval Emblem exterior - leather with small brass ornament
Left: Naval Emblem interior - leather with small brass ornament Right: Naval Emblem detail
15: Front and back of a Needle Preserver marked W. Avery & Son Redditch made of paper and/or pasteboard (photos from the internet).
16: Top and bottom of Jahncke's metallic box marked W. Avery & Son Redditch probably made of tin.
Left: Interior of Jahncke's metalic box marked W. Avery & Son Redditch on the top and "Jahncke's Patent" on the side. Right: Drawing of Ernest Jahncke's patented metallic box showing how the top and bottom slide into each other from Wyman's Commercial Encylclopaedia of Leading Manufacturers of Great Britian which was published in 1888.
17: Left: Leather book-shaped needle/pin box marked W. Avery's needles (photo courtesy of Christina Bertrand).
18: Left: Spring hook patent #131553 dated August 1889 registered by W. Avery & Son. Right: The Imovable Spring Hook and Eye pasteboard box marked W. Avery & Son.
19: Left: Jahncke's mitrailleuse needle case marked W. Avery & Son's Redditch probably made of tin. Right: Drawing of Ernst Jahncke's patented mitrailleuse needle case from from Wyman's Commercial Encylclopaedia of Leading Manufacturers of Great Britian which was published in 1888. Ernst August Jahncke and Henry William Herbst of Canonbury Works in Islington, Middlesex patented this needle case, #10,716 on July 29, 1884.
20: Closed and open leather pouch shaped needle case marked W. Avery & Son Headless Cross Redditch (photos courtesy of David Chatterley).
21: Left: Patent for a Mouse Trap needle and pin case - earthenware, Design #321030 dated May 3, 1878. Right: Celluloid Mouse Trap Receptacle for needles and pins.
Additional views of the Celluloid Mouse Trap Receptacle for needles and pins.
Bottom of the Celluloid Mouse Trap Receptacle for needles and pins marked W. Avery & Son Redditch.
22: Berry toilet pin case marked W. Avery & Son, Headless Cross, Redditch made of paper and pasteboard with pins with white tips
23: "The Hilda" Wood Work Box marked William Avery & Son, Headless Cross, Redditch (photo courtesy of David Chatterley).
Top and bottom interior of "the Hilda" Wood Work box marked William Avery & Son, Headless Cross, Redditch (photos courtesy of David Chatterley)
24: Top and botton of the Rectaugular Floral Patterned Bakelike style needle case marked William Avery & Son, Redditch (photos taken during 2019 visit with David Chatterley)
Top and bottom detail views (photos taken during 2019 visit with David Chatterley)
Open detail view (photo taken during 2019 visit with David Chatterley)
25: Wooden Counter Box, size 20x30x6 cm (photo from todocoleccion Internet website)
Wooden Counter Box interior details, top and bottom (photos from todocoleccion Internet website)
Wooden Counter Box exterior details, top and side view (photos from todocoleccion Internet website)
Needle wrapper marked W. Avery & Son Redditch and detail of the patent drawing #6395 Avery registered on March 28, 1881 (photo of the needle wrapper courtesy of David Chatterley)
Brass needle case lid marked W. Avery & Son Redditch and detail of the patent drawing #5894 Avery registered on February 3, 1877
Bakelite clock needle case marked W. Avery & Son Redditch, front view and bottom view (photos courtesy of Rita Reeves).
Bakelite clock needle case marked W. Avery & Son Redditch, detail view of the design registration diamond on the bottom marked Day 3, Year 1877 (P) or 1878 (D) and Month illegible (photo courtesy of Rita Reeves).
Woman Feeding Chickens pasteboard needle case marked W. Avery & Son front and back.
Woman Feeding Chickens pasteboard needle case interior marked W. Avery & Son.
