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- OBJECT TYPE
- 12 PT
- DATE
- Unknown
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1979.0018.003
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 3
- Total Parts
- 3
- AKA
- Chinese ideograms
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- brown paper wrapped block presumably contains silver metal type [lead, tin and/or antimony, etc.]; block stored inside unbleached cardboard box.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 26.1 cm
- Width
- 11.6 cm
- Height
- 13.1 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 bundle is labelled as containing punctuation. This lot consists of 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
- " 8.2" printed by hand in black marker on tape securing paper around type bundle. "PONCTUATION [sic] MARKS FOR/ SHANG-WAH PRESS" printed by hand in black marker on yellowed label applied to box.
- Missing
- NB: Type inside this bundle not viewed during cataloguing; identification, etc. based on markings on packaging. Complete collection of Chinese ideograms would number approx. 6000; approx. 353 ideograms received.
- Finish
- .3 brown paper wrapped block presumably contains silver metal type [lead, tin and/or antimony, etc.]; block stored inside unbleached cardboard box.
- Decoration
- N/A
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