Patent model for stencils for sign painter's template
Patent model for stencils for sign painter's template
- Description (Brief)
- This patent model demonstrates an invention for a template that includes all the letters of the alphabet in a single pattern; the invention was granted patent number 147942.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- manufacture, stencils
- template, painter's
- stencils, template, painter's
- stencils, sign painters
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- date made
- ca 1874
- patent date
- 1874-02-24
- patentee
- Hutchison, Merrill
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall:.1 cm x 15.7 cm x 15.3 cm; 1/16 in x 6 3/16 in x 6 in
- ID Number
- GA.89797.147942
- accession number
- 089797
- patent number
- 147942
- catalog number
- GA*89797.147942
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
- Patent Models, Graphic Arts
- Work
- Communications
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Patent Models
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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