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OBJECT TYPE: 12 PT
DATE: Unknown
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 1979.0018.002

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
MODEL: Unknown
LOCATION: Unknown

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 2
Total Parts: 3
AKA: Chinese ideograms
Patents: N/A
General Description: wooden tray contains silver metal type [lead, tin and/or antimony, etc.]; paper label

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 93.3 cm
Width: 45.2 cm
Height: 2.7 cm
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Printing
Category: Image carriers
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Unknown
Country: Unknown
State/Province: Unknown
City: Unknown

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
Period: Unknown
Canada: Used by a Canadian Chinese newspaper office in the hand setting of body type. There were few print shops in Canada which carried out similar letterpress operations. [Ref. 1]
Function: Used to print Chinese language newspaper in Canada.
Technical: This is an example of type cases (trays) and their accompanying ideograms used in Chinese language printing shops. It is an incomplete 'alphabet', and is expected that a complete font of characters will be acquired by the museum later in 1979. The complete collection of ideograms would number approx. 6000 characters. [Ref. 1]
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: Paper label on tray bears Chinese characters.
Missing: NB: Complete collection of Chinese ideograms would number approx. 6000; approx. 353 ideograms received.
Finish: Wooden tray contains silver metal type [lead, tin and/or antimony, etc.]; paper label applied to one edge of tray top.
Decoration: N/A

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