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Halftone Printing Block of William Elliott Apprenticeship Indenture, c.1948

Inventory Number 12684


Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by the Marconi Corporation in 2003. Elliott Collection 1517 (kept with the Elliott Archive).
Physical material
Wood
Copper
Object type
Printing block
Dimensions
Height: 120mm Width: 154mm Depth: 22mm
Inventory No
12684
Accession Number
2003-11

Description

Halftone printing block (copper plate on wood), from a photograph, of William Elliott's apprenticeship indenture [MS Elliott 1], as reproduced in the articles "Instrument Making for Faraday" (November 1948) and "150 Years of Instrument Making" (March 1951).