Feick Bros. CO. Pittsburgh Surgical Needles Salesman Samples Book design blocks 14 3/4" long

14 3/4" long

an old horizontal fold line down the center

with a graceful and serene presence

and peas growing in limestone and water

working perfectly to tell the (approximate) time

Feick Bros. CO. Pittsburgh Surgical Needles Salesman Samples Book design blocks 14 3/4" longGeorge 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