Antique New England Electrical Works Spool of Copper Magnet Wire with Original Label  Willem Klinj amsterdam dividing the cat into pixels

dividing the cat into pixels

great rich brown and black

so perhaps just original to the making

two different sets of initials were carved into the frame

which I am sure replaced the original the rivet or metal loop

Antique New England Electrical Works Spool of Copper Magnet Wire with Original Label  Willem Klinj amsterdam dividing the cat into pixelsI found this large unused spoil of New England Electrical Works wire in Corncord, NH, not very far from Lisbon, NH where it was produced c. 1900 I believe. I think its a beautiful thing, with the wooden spool and wire still wrapped by the original, unbroken printed label, listing the Park Avenue address of the company's New York sales room on one side and the company info on the other. Founded in 1898, New England Electrical Works later became New