General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

3

AKA

Chinese ideograms

Patents

N/A

General Description

wooden tray contains silver metal type [lead, tin and/or antimony, etc.]; paper label

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

93.3 cm

Width

45.2 cm

Height

2.7 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Printing

Category

Image carriers

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Unknown

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

City

Unknown

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

Unknown

Canada

Used by a Canadian Chinese newspaper office in the hand setting of body type. There were few print shops in Canada which carried out similar letterpress operations. [Ref. 1]

Function

Used to print Chinese language newspaper in Canada.

Technical

This is an example of type case trays and their accompanying ideograms used in Chinese language printing shops. It is an incomplete 'alphabet', and is expected that a complete font of characters will be acquired by the museum later in 1979. The complete collection of ideograms would number approx. 6000 characters. [Ref. 1]

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Paper label on tray bears Chinese characters.

Missing

NB: Complete collection of Chinese ideograms would number approx. 6000; approx. 353 ideograms received.

Finish

.1 wooden tray contains silver metal type [lead, tin and/or antimony, etc.]; paper label applied to one top edge of tray.

Decoration

N/A