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Lithographic Stone - Opening Ceremony, Princes Bridge, 1850
Lithographic stone illustrating the opening ceremony at Princes Bridge, Melbourne in 1850. Princes Bridge crosses the Yarra River in the heart of Melbourne, Australia. Three bridges ( ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 0 -
Cheque Writer - G W Todd & Co, Protectograph, USA, Circa1913
Protectograph Check Writer. Made by G. W. Todd & Co., Rochester, New York, U. S. A. Patented 1913-23. Introduced 1913. Advertised 1913-28.
From: Rochester, United States Images: 1 -
Duplicator - Gestetner, Flat Bed No 10, Circa 1890
Gestetner Diaphragm no. 10 "flat bed" duplicator, similar to an Edison mimeograph machine. Type of duplicator in use prior to invention of rotary machines. Uses hand inking roller.
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Printing Press & Forme - Excelsior, Kelsey & Co, Model, USA, 1873
Model printing press. "Excelsior" 1873. Made by Kelsey & Co, accompanied by a printing forme handset with monotype. The empty frame is known as the chase. The chase filled with a job fo ...
From: Meriden, United States Images: 5 -
Laundry Marking Machine - 'The British', 1940s
"The British" marking machine used for laundry marking. This is probably a ribbon-type laundry marking machine to mark clothing. This type of machine uses a lever principle for ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 2 -
Duplicator - Red Seal, Flat Bed, Early 20th Century
Red-Seal "flat bed" duplicator, similar to an Edison mimeograph machine. Type of duplicator in use prior to invention of rotary machines. The duplicatotr comes i a wooden box. The b ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 1 -
Beveller - Printing, Rotary, Wesels, 1950s
Wesels rotary beveller. A beveler was used to bevel the edges of the curved stereotype plate so that small clips of the cylinder could hold the plate beneath the level of the plate so ...
From: New York, United States Images: 1 -
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Duplicator - Apeco Photographic, Director Model, Circa 1963
Apeco Photographic duplicator, Director Model, with handbook, circa 1963. Made by American Photocopy Equipment Co. Used for unbound document duplication up to about foolscap size. The p ...
From: Evanston, United States Images: 0 -
Cheque Writer - G W Todd & Co, Protectograph, USA, Circa1916
G. W. Todd & Co. "Protectograph". Device for printing cash amounts on cheques in words. Operated with a handle. Made in America circa 1916. Cheque is rolled through machine by placing ...
From: Rochester, United States Images: 1 -
Duplicator - Gestetner, Double Drum Rotary Stencil, Cyclostyle No 6, Circa 1913
Gestetner Cyclostyle No 6 Duplicator, circa 1913 with paper feeder and case. This is a two drum rotary stencil machine. A stencil, in poor condition, is still attached. The double-drum ...
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Printing Press - English Common Press, Fawkner, 1700s
The Melbourne Advertiser, the first Melbourne newspaper, was printed on this press in 1838. The publisher, John Pascoe Fawkner, was an entrepreneur taking advantage of opportunities p ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 3 -
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Set - Music Engraving Tool, Schirmer, Circa 1880
Music engraving tool set. One of the ways that sheet music produced from about 1700 to 1920 was by printing from engravings on metal plates using a set of tools such as this. This set ...
From: New York, United States Images: 0 -
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Box With Punches - Music Engraving Tool Set, Circa 1880
This item is part of a music engraving tool set used mostly by Gordon Baker who worked for a. Kynoch & Co. Pty. Ltd. in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s. Gordon Baker was apprentic ...
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Box With Punches - Music Engraving Tool Set, Circa 1880
This item is part of a music engraving tool set used mostly by Gordon Baker who worked for a. Kynoch & Co. Pty. Ltd. in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s. Gordon Baker was apprentic ...
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Engraver's Hammer - Music Engraving Tool Set, Circa 1880
This item is part of a music engraving tool set used mostly by Gordon Baker who worked for a. Kynoch & Co. Pty. Ltd. in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s. Gordon Baker was apprentic ...
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Box With 8 Staves - Music Engraving Tool Set, Circa 1880
This item is part of a music engraving tool set used mostly by Gordon Baker who worked for a. Kynoch & Co. Pty. Ltd. in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s. Gordon Baker was apprentic ...
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Box with Brace Punches - Music Engraving Tool Set, Circa 1880
This item is part of a music engraving tool set used mostly by Gordon Baker who worked for A. Kynoch & Co. Pty. Ltd. in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s. Gordon Baker was apprentic ...
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Leather Punch Pad - Music Engraving Tool Set, Circa 1880
This item is part of a music engraving tool set used mostly by Gordon Baker who worked for a. Kynoch & Co. Pty. Ltd. in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s. Gordon Baker was apprentic ...
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Pewter Printing Plate - Music Engraving Tool Set, Circa 1880
This item is part of a music engraving tool set used mostly by Gordon Baker who worked for a. Kynoch & Co. Pty. Ltd. in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s. Gordon Baker was apprentic ...
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Lithographic Stone - Music Engraving Tool Set, Circa 1880
This item is part of a music engraving tool set used mostly by Gordon Baker who worked for a. Kynoch & Co. Pty. Ltd. in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s. Gordon Baker was apprentic ...
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Music Sheets - Music Engraving Tool Set, Circa 1880
This item is part of a music engraving tool set used mostly by Gordon Baker who worked for a. Kynoch & Co. Pty. Ltd. in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s. Gordon Baker was apprentic ...
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Pewter Printing Plate - Music Engraving Tool Set, Circa 1880
This item is part of a music engraving tool set used mostly by Gordon Baker who worked for a. Kynoch & Co. Pty. Ltd. in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s. Gordon Baker was apprentic ...
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Pewter Printing Plate - Music Engraving Tool Set, Circa 1880
This item is part of a music engraving tool set used mostly by Gordon Baker who worked for a. Kynoch & Co. Pty. Ltd. in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s. Gordon Baker was apprentic ...
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Stave Line Cutter - Music Engraving Tool Set, Circa 1880
This item is part of a music engraving tool set used mostly by Gordon Baker who worked for a. Kynoch & Co. Pty. Ltd. in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s. Gordon Baker was apprentic ...
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Stave Line Cutter - Music Engraving Tool Set, Circa 1880
This item is part of a music engraving tool set used mostly by Gordon Baker who worked for a. Kynoch & Co. Pty. Ltd. in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s. Gordon Baker was apprentic ...
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Stave Line Cutter - Music Engraving Tool Set, Circa 1880
This item is part of a music engraving tool set used mostly by Gordon Baker who worked for a. Kynoch & Co. Pty. Ltd. in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s. Gordon Baker was apprentic ...
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Scraping Tool - Music Engraving Tool Set, Circa 1880
This item is part of a music engraving tool set used mostly by Gordon Baker who worked for a. Kynoch & Co. Pty. Ltd. in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s. Gordon Baker was apprentic ...
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Stave Line Cutter - Music Engraving Tool Set, Circa 1880
This item is part of a music engraving tool set used mostly by Gordon Baker who worked for a. Kynoch & Co. Pty. Ltd. in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s. Gordon Baker was apprentic ...
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Vertical Line Cutter - Music Engraving Tool Set, Circa 1880
This item is part of a music engraving tool set used mostly by Gordon Baker who worked for a. Kynoch & Co. Pty. Ltd. in Melbourne from the 1930s to the 1980s. Gordon Baker was apprentic ...
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Duplicator - Edison Mimeograph, Flat Bed, Circa 1889
Edison mimeograph duplicator. The stencil duplicator, or mimeograph machine, along with spirit duplicators and hectographs, were from the late 19th Century used for small jobs in the ...
From: London, United Kingdom Images: 2 -
Typesetter - Monotype Double Keyboard, Date Unknown
Monotype machine used for typesetting. Made by Monotype Corporation Ltd., London, England. The Press was presumably bought new by the VGPO. Operation The letters on the keyboard are a ...
From: London, United Kingdom Images: 3 -
Telegraph Register - Siemens Bros, Inking, post 1865
A morse inking register for receiving and recording telegraph signals. In operation, the intermittent current generated by the received signals causes a small rotating wheel to be int ...
From: London, United Kingdom Images: 1 -
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Contact Printer - American Photocopy Equipment Co, Circa 1961
Photographic contact printer, companion unit for Apeco duplicator, circa 1963. Made by American Photocopy Equipment Co. Takes negatives of up to 250 mm by 420 mm. Timer on side of print ...
From: Evanston, United States Images: 0 -
Printing Block - Victorian Parliamentry Debates, Session 1958 to 1959
Printing block probably for front cover of record of Parliamentary Debates, in this particular case, for the 1958 - 159 Session, Volume 256, Pages 1251 - 2404
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 1 -
Printing Press & Prayer Sheet - Homemade, Mid 20th Century
Homemade printing press, made of timber, angle iron and hinges. Lever action moves inking roller over type. Reverse of lever action brings paper down on type. Accompanied by prayer s ...
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Galley Tray - Typesetting, Early 20th Century
A Galley tray is a flat tray on which the compositor makes up the type into pages. It has sides that are lower than the height of the type and is open at one end.
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 1 -
Roller Brayer - Printing, Late 19th Century
Roller for use using a hand press. The roller was used to thin the thick printing ink before it was applied to the type. This was done on the top surface of a stone or on the stone sur ...
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Quoin Key - Typesetting, Small, Late 19th Century
This key is used to lock small quoins into place when setting up type in a forme. Setting type by hand is known as 'composing the type'. The type is taken letter by letter and placed ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 0 -
Quoin Key - Typesetting, Large, Late 19th Century
This key is used to lock large quoins into place when setting up type in a forme. Setting type by hand is known as 'composing the type'. The type is taken letter by letter and placed ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 1 -
Setting Stick - Typesetting, Late 19th Century
This stick is used for setting up lines of type before placing the line into the forme. A compositor selected type from a type case one letter at a time. The letters were placed in a ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 1 -
Quoin - Typesetting, Late 19th Century
Quoins are clamps used to lock type into place within a frame called a forme. Setting type by hand is known as 'composing the type'. The type is taken letter by letter and placed in ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 1 -
Quoin - Typesetting, Late 19th Century
Quoins are clamps used to lock type into place within a frame called a forme. Setting type by hand is known as 'composing the type'. The type is taken letter by letter and placed in ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 1 -
Wooden Spacer - Typesetting, Late 19th Century
Spacers (technical term is furniture) are used to ensure that type is correctly placed within a frame called a forme. Setting type by hand is known as 'composing the type'. The type ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 4 -
Wooden Spacer - Typesetting, Late 19th Century
Spacers (technical term is furniture) are used to ensure that type is correctly placed within a frame called a chase. Setting type by hand is known as 'composing the type'. The type ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 2 -
Wooden Spacer - Typesetting, Late 19th Century
Spacers (technical term is furniture) are used to ensure that type is correctly placed within a frame called a forme. Setting type by hand is known as 'composing the type'. The type ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 4 -
Wooden Spacer - Typesetting, Late 19th Century
Spacers (technical term is furniture) are used to ensure that type is correctly placed within a frame called a forme. Setting type by hand is known as 'composing the type'. The type ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 4 -
Forme - Newspaper, Handset, Monotype, 1850-1900, Assembled 2008
This is a printing forme handset with monotype, using 19th century type and typesetting items. The type has been set up to reproduce the first page and other sections of the first prin ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 3 -
Duplicator - Ellams, Single Drum Rotary Stencil, Circa 1923
Ellams duplicator. This is a single drum rotary stencil machine. Consists of an 8 inch perforated drum with internal hand operated inker. Made in London, circa 1923.
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Duplicator - Ellams, Flat Bed, Diaphragm Model, Late 19th Century
Flat bed duplicator, similar to an Edison Mimeograph. This description comes from the Early Office Museum website: (This duplicator was) 'sold in rectangular wooden boxes. The boxes co ...
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Printing Plate - Great Melbourne Telescope Visitors Ticket, circa 1890
Hand engraved copper printing plate, for printing admittance tickets for public viewings of the Great Melbourne Telescope. There was onsiderable public demand for viewing the telescop ...
From: South Yarra, Australia Images: 1
