#27 bag is 10" x10" x 25" long with leather strap
#127 represents a continual industrial used bag. From its “hand”, its scars, repair attempts, adged assembly & #127 identifier, this was an everyday bag utilized in a foundry, mass worker place factory or construction site.
The copper rivets are typical of circa 1890’s - 1950s construction. If you note the rivets attaching the base cup leather to the cylindrical leather, there is an asymmetry. It's beauty was never to look pretty yet to be a juxtaposing beauty of utility. This was made in the factory as secondary work to support the factory operations as opposed to a company who manufactured this bag who would have made the rivets symmetrical- to showcase professional product for sale.
This is a piece of Lost art in today's manufactured work bags.
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This was a leather strap repurposed from a respirator bag, circa 1970s - 1990s. It was crudely bolted on with with steel #10- 24 bolts. If you look inside you can see where the old strap was torn out with the oversized holes. Note the repair leather patch bolted on the bottom.
Utility necessitates its own beauty
Warning. Do not remove the label:
#27 bag is 10" x10" x 25" long with leather strap
#127 represents a continual industrial used bag. From its “hand”, its scars, repair attempts, adged assembly & #127 identifier, this was an everyday bag utilized in a foundry, mass worker place factory or construction site.
The copper rivets are typical of circa 1890’s - 1950s construction. If you note the rivets attaching the base cup leather to the cylindrical leather, there is an asymmetry. It's beauty was never to look pretty yet to be a juxtaposing beauty of utility. This was made in the factory as secondary work to support the factory operations as opposed to a company who manufactured this bag who would have made the rivets symmetrical- to showcase professional product for sale.
This is a piece of Lost art in today's manufactured work bags.
Warning. Do not remove the label:
This was a leather strap repurposed from a respirator bag, circa 1970s - 1990s. It was crudely bolted on with with steel #10- 24 bolts. If you look inside you can see where the old strap was torn out with the oversized holes. Note the repair leather patch bolted on the bottom.
Utility necessitates its own beauty
Warning. Do not remove the label:
