Feick Bros. CO. Pittsburgh Surgical Needles Salesman Samples Book design blocks and peas growing in limestone

and peas growing in limestone and water

part of what drew me it that this is clearly that--a tintype of an earlier cased photo

but maybe that's just me

an old horizontal fold line down the center

Feick Bros. CO. Pittsburgh Surgical Needles Salesman Samples Book design blocks and peas growing in limestoneGeorge 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