General Information

Serial #

94478

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

METAL WITH SOME SYNTHETIC, SILK COVER ON ROLLER/ METAL COVER WITH WOODEN HANDLE

Dimensions

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

Length

46.0 cm

Width

34.5 cm

Height

44.5 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Printing

Category

Duplication

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

GESTETNER

Country

England

State/Province

Unknown

City

London

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

Unknown

Function

Used for producing copies from a hand or type-written stencil.

Technical

MODEL 6 WAS FIRST SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT OF GESTETNER ROTARY DUPLICATOR SINCE PRODUCTION OF FIRST ROTARY IN 1902/ INCORPORATES AN AUTOMATIC PAPER FEED WHICH WAS SYNCHRONIZED TO THE ROTATION OF THE STENCIL

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

MFG. PLATE ON FRONT 'D. Gestetner (Canada) Ltd./ 117A KINGSTREET W/ TORONTO/ Telephone/ ELGIN/ 3770/ Telegrams/ GESTETNER/ TORONTO'/ PLATE ON SIDE: 'MANUFACTURED/ BY/ D. GESTETNER/ NO.94478/ CYCLOSTYLE WORKS/ TOTTENHAM HALE/ LONDON,N.'/ ALSO 'The "Gestetner"/ (TRADEMARK)/ MADE IN ENGLAND' & 'The "Gestetner"/ (TRADEMARK)'/ ON SIDE IS GAUGE, CALIBRATED, WITH '0 1 2' MARKED & 'The/ Gestetner/ (TRADEMARK)/ TO PRINT LOWER TO PRINT HIGHER'/ 'Oil' ON SIDE/ HANDWRITTEN ON PAPER FEED TRAY '94478'/ ON COVER '"GESTETNER"/ (TRADEMARK)/ MADE IN ENGLAND' ALSO 'D. Gestetner/ (CANADA)[?]/ HEAD OFFICE/ 117 A KING ST. WEST TORONTO/ SALES AND SERVICE/TORONTO ELGIN 2269-70/ MONTREAL LAN 4783 OTTAWA QUEEN1592/ WINNIPEG N-8802/ QUEBEC 2-5096/ VANCOUVER SEYMOUR [?] 0/ ST. JOHN MAIN 1366'./ ON PIECE AROUND TOP ROLLER: ‘THE EXCELLENCE OF GESTETNER PRODUCTS IS THE RESULT OF CONTINUOUS RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT FROM 1881 ONWARDS'./ MORE MARKINGS ON BACK BUT ILLEGIBLE

Missing

N/A

Finish

FRAME PAINTED BLACK WITH GOLD-COLOURED LETTERING, SILVER-COLOURED WORKING PARTS, BURGUNDY PAINT AT EDGES OF ROLLERS & BURGUNDY PIECE AROUND PART OF TOP ROLLER/ COVER HAS BLACK WRINKLE FINISH, QUITE RUSTED, VARNISHED WOODEN HANDLE, MUCH WORN

Decoration

GOLD-COLOURED OUTLINING AROUND BASE & FRONT PART OF FRAME