Block, wood
Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation
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| Nom de l'objet : | Block, wood |
| Catégorie de l'objet : | Tools & Equipment for Communication |
| Sous-catégorie de l'objet : | Printing T&E |
| Matériaux : | Metal, Copper Wood |
| Numéro de catalogue : | HF.07.9.7.2.6 |
| Numéro d'accession : | HF.07.9.7.2.6 |
| Date de fin de production : | 1915 c |
| Description : | Copper printing plate on wood block. A copper plate with a raised contact surface affixed to a wooden block by six finish nails. Block has a rectangular hole in the lower portion. Block features an advertisement for teaspoons and is divided into roughly three sections by scrolled lines: top left the words, "TUDOR PLATE Oneida Community Made; Lower left the words, "For even your most formal dinner parties this exquisite product of the Oneida Community will lend a distinctive charm. A price too that will fairly astonish you. Teaspoons $2.00 Set of Six" ; Right an image of a teaspoon topped by a coat of arms over top the words, "The QUEEN BESS." The coat of arms is divided into four quadrants the first and fourth of with contain a fleur-de-lis while the second and third are blank; a crown tops the coat of arms. |
| Commentaires : | This printing block was used by Roger's Hardware located in Charlottetown, PEI. The Oneida Community was a utopian commune founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in Oneida, New York. There is some doubt whether the spoon pictured is actually of the Queen Bess pattern. |
| Hauteur : | 13.5 |
| Longueur : | 5 |
| Largeur : | 25 |
| Unité de mesure linéaire : | Centimetre |
| Translittération de l'inscription : | Copper plate : "TUDOR / PLATE / Oneida Community Made / For even your most formal din- / ner parties this / exquisite product / of the Oneida / Community will / lend a distinctive / charm. / A price too that / will fairly aston- / ish you. / Teaspoons / $2.00 / Set of Six / The / QUEEN BESS" Etched into Copper plate : "-PAT-" Back : "917 - L |
| Établissement : |
Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation
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| Ville de l'établissement : | Charlottetown |
| Province de l'établissement : | Prince Edward Island |
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