US Patent No. 137,297, granted April 1, 1873 to Martin Deitzler of Ashland, Pennsylvania, for a hinged case that stores an original package of lace or ribbon wound on a pasteboard strip. Spring clamps and spools hold the package so the lace can be drawn out through a front opening and rewound with a key. A recess on the front holds marking-cards. The first page is the patent drawing (Figs. 1 and 2); the second is the specification and claim.