This clear green plastic template has thirty-five holes on a background grid of lines. A scale of inches divided to tenths is along the top edge, a scale of inches divided to sixths along the right edge, and a scale of inches divided to eighths along the bottom edge. Cuts in the left edge provide a template for drawing large brackets. A mark in the bottom right corner reads: STAEDTLER (/) 977 (/) 112 (/) professional DATA PROCESSING (/) template (/) made in U.S.A.
Staedtler is a German drawing instrument firm which began making pencils in 1835. It established an American subsidiary in New Jersey in 1953, and has subsequently moved that corporate office to California.
The Staedtler logo on the bottom left corner of the template is that used by the company between 1973 and 2001.
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