Feick Bros. CO. Pittsburgh Surgical Needles Salesman Samples Book purple heart And with a nice detail

And with a nice detail of deeper carving at the spot where he carved in the year of his birth

Vintage 1970s I would guess

one of a handful I've purchased by artist Peter Passuntino (b

she visited the United States on a number of lecture tours

Feick Bros. CO. Pittsburgh Surgical Needles Salesman Samples Book purple heart And with a nice detailGeorge Feick (1855 1923) was a surgical instrument maker from Germany who arrived in the US in 1881 and established a small repair shop in Pittsburgh; by the 1890s, his sons Carl and Edwin joined the operation and the firm became the Feick Bros. Company. The logo on this salesman sample binder of five pages worth of surgical needles dates it to the late 1920s or so, I believe. A few needles missing here and there, but I find the pattens they form