Material: nickel plated steel
Manufacturer: August Kippenberg, Fehtershausen, Germany
Patent: 1896 US 572809
This is the first hook with the patented flat pad grip that is standard on steel crochet hooks today.
salesman card
Various marks used on grip
size on end of handle
size on back of grip
size on back of grip
no size marked on hook
size marked on back of grip, pointing finger and REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. on one side of end of handle and MADE IN GERMANY on other side of end
size marked on back of grip, pointing finger and REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. on one side of end of handle and MADE IN GERMANY and Eagle on other side of end
Eagle trademark on front cover of salesman card
early depiction of hook in Hadley, Sara, ed., The Lace Maker, D. S. Bennet, vol. 1, no. 5, May 1903
1915 ad for Kippenburg crochet hook in Snow, Virginia, 1915, Collingbourne’s Encyclopedia of Technologic Art Needle Work Instruction, Book 15, 1916 edition, Western Thread, Co, Elgin, Illinois, inside back cover
