Stamper
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- OBJECT TYPE
- inspection/federal/meat
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2000.0270.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Medium brown wooden handle is stained by red ink. Silver metal head; brass colour dies.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 51.6 cm
- Width
- 8.4 cm
- Height
- 3.2 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Industrial Technology
- Category
- Industrial equipment
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- Unknown
- Canada
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This type of stamper used by federeal meat inspectors to indicate assessed grade of beef, "M" for the "manufacturing" grade of "cows" termed "canners and cutters", and "S" for "stags and bulls." These National grades established in 1947 for market classes [of] live cattle by the Livestock Inspection and Grading Service of the Dept. of Agriculture. [Ref. 2 pp. 40-41] - Function
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Used to apply inked mark onto butchered meat carcass. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- One die produces text stamp "S"; the other reads "M". "2 00" and "LMD" crudely hanwritten in red ink on handle.
- Missing
- Appears complete, save chip missing from wooden handle near attachment point with striking head.
- Finish
- Medium brown wooden handle is stained by red ink. Silver metal head; brass colour dies.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Stamper, Unknown Date, Artifact no. 2000.0270, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2000.0270.001/
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