The Scottish Mountain Heritage Collection
656.2008.1
Black's Good Companions Sleeping Bag
15/12/2008
Hermione Cooper
15/12/2008
'Black's' down sleeping bag. Hood with cotton tapes at the top.
cotton, down
186(l) x 78(w)cms.
1
"FIN 31" stencilled onto hood
yellow
Blacks
Scotland
Thomas Black founded a sailmaking and chandlering business in Greenock, Scotland in 1863. His son, also Thomas, changed the emphasis and direction of the company in the early 1900's by diversyfying into tent manufacture which reaped big rewards from military contracts during World War 1.
Always ahead of the game, Black's Good Companion Catalogue was launched in 1932, a sumptious blend of equipment and narrative, way ahead of its time and proving to be an excellent marketing tool.
The icelandic, Pal-o-Mine and Good Companion sleeping bags were iconic items from the 1930's right up to the turn of the century when Blacks ceased to exist in its original form.
The one we have here in the collection is in excellent condition and was kindly donated by M.J.Fraser
Donated by M.J. Fraser
15/12/2008
hood torn
28/04/2009
Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007
28/04/2009