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The New Knitting Register, cardboard card with machine printed writing and illustrations; green coloured 'knitted' background with white and light tone yellow coloured machine printed writing, "The/ New!/ KNITTING/ REGISTER" and "with/ PULL-OUT/ TAPE MEASURE/ 'COMPACT'/ FEATHERWEIGHT/MADE IN ENGLAND/ REGISTERED DESIGNS/ NOS. 876232 876.233/ WORLD PATENTS PENDING"; image of a hand with and orange coloured nail, holding a yellow coloured measuring tape that comes out of an orange coloured circle with a white coloured star burst on top, in the center is a cutout where the real measure tape was held, in the top right corner is a dark tone blue coloured circular ink stamp with a, '39' in the center; on the reverse in green coloured machine printed writing is, "A BOON TO KNITTERS, MEASURES, COUNTS/SIMPLIFIES KNITTING/ AND/ IS EASY TO READ", a machine printed illustration of a tape measure on the end of a knitting needle, below are instructions on how "TO WITHDRAW THE TAPE MEASURE", "TO REWIND" and, "TO OPERATE NUMERALS ONLY', "FITS NEEEDLES Nos. 6-12 INCLUSIVE".