Metal case for sewing needles
Metal case for sewing needles – no needles in case. States Manufactured by Abel Morrall Ltd, Redditch. Sharps 3-7. Morralls’s Soeeze or Sveeze – writing is hard to read. The Limited Liability Act 1855 (18 & 19 Vict c 133) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that first expressly allowed limited liability for corporations that could be established by the general public in England and Wales as well as Ireland.
A most important invention was patented in 1839 by Abel Morrall, a Studley needle-maker, for burnishing the eyes of needles by threading them upon a roughened steel wire stretched in a frame and caused to revolve, or to move backwards and forwards.
This very valuable patent was shortly afterwards purchased by Messrs. Bartleet & Sons, of Redditch and the use of string or cord, which the inventor thought might also serve as well as wire, was disclaimed by them in 1841. The end of the Abel Morrall brand came when it was amalgamated with a Glaswegian firm in 1984.