Antique New England Electrical Works Spool of Copper Magnet Wire with Original Label  Willem Klinj amsterdam I really love the extra

I really love the extra large hand in the near foreground

dividing the cat into pixels

6 13/16" x 5 1/8" x 7/8" thick with a beautiful dry wood patina

so perhaps just original to the making

so didn't force it

Antique New England Electrical Works Spool of Copper Magnet Wire with Original Label  Willem Klinj amsterdam I really love the extraI 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