Museum Collections

This gray cardboard box contains tailor's chalk packed in sawdust to keep it dry. It has a print on the lid and side in black of a bald man in a bowtie with a measuring tape around his neck and a tab of chalk in his hand. It reads in black " 'Jems'/ Tailors' Chalk/ 'Unexcelled in Quality'/ For complete satisfaction use aa Tailors' Crayons showing the 'Old Tailor'." Inside are a few pieces of white , black and terra cotta colored tabs of chalk.