Figure 6

Figure 6. Top left, New York’s Macy’s catalogue, 1904; top right and middle left, Sak’s catalogue, New York, 1905. Middle right, 1910, National Auto Supply Company, New York; bottom left, 1913 British advertisement (William Whitley Ltd), bottom right, 1915 U.S. (B.A.&CO. Chicago). Note, that both the middle and bottom right advertisements, although 5 years apart have the same image, they show a patented metal hinge, others relied on cloth hinges.

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