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OBJECT TYPE: BARBERING/UNFRAMED
DATE: 1923
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 1999.0193.001

MANUFACTURER: MOLER BARBER COLLEGE
MODEL: MOLER BARBER COLLEGE
LOCATION: Montréal, Québec, Canada

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: PAPER

Dimensions

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

Length: 53.1 cm
Width: 40.5 cm
Height: N/A
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Domestic Technology
Category: Archives
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: MOLER
Country: Canada
State/Province: Québec
City: Montréal

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Quebec
Period: THIS CERTIFICATE ISSUED IN 1923.
Canada: PART OF A COLLECTION OF BARBERING EQUIPMENT ORIGINALLY OWNED AND USED BY THE DONOR'S FATHER MR. WILLIAM ROY SEAR IN HIS SHOP AT 27 BROAD ST., SUSSEX NB. MR. SEAR GRADUATED FROM MOLER BARBER COLLEGE IN MONTREAL IN 1923, AND BEGAN BARBERING THE NEXT YEAR. HE TRAINED SEVERAL BARBERS, ANDHIS BROTHER GEORGE NELSON SEAR ALSO A BARBER, OPERATED HIS OWN SHOP IN SUSSEX UNTIL 1991. ROY SEAR DIED IN 1973: HIS SHOP WAS CLOSED, AND HIS BARBER CHAIR (AND POSSIBLY OTHER EQ.) WAS TRANSFERRED TO GEORGE, WHO USED IT UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1991. (SEE SUPP. INFO. 1999.0186)
Function: TO PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGE AN ACHIEVEMENT, IN THIS CASE THE COMPLETION OF TRAINING IN BARBERING.
Technical: THE A.B. MOLER BARBER SCHOOL WAS FOUNDED IN CHICAGO, IL IN 1893, AND BRANCHES ESTABLISHED IN CITIES THOUGHOUT THE USA AND CANADA SOON AFTER. THE MOLER SYSTEM OF COLLEGES OFFERED TRAINING IN BARBERING, HAIR DRESSING, MASSAGE THEREAPY, SKIN CARE & MAKEUP, AND OTHER RELATED DISCIPLINES INTO THE MID 1990S AND POSSIBLY LATER.
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: "Testimonial of Merit/ THE/ MOLER/ SYSTEM/ OF COLLEGES/ THIS CERTIFIES/ THAT/ Roy Sear/ has made deligent application, attended regularly the lectures and clinics of this College,/ and by examinations and actual practice has been proven competent in/ BARBERING/ In Testimony Whereof, we hereunto affix our hand this 9th day of/ June One Thousand Nine Hundred and 1923/ Moler Barber College/ 62 St. Lawrence Bould./ Montreal, P.Q./ E.M. Robinson, Gen Mgr./ [illegible] Mgr./ F. Ponting Asst. Mgr./ AD. MORISSETTE EDITEUR, 46 NOTRE-DAME OUEST, MONTREAL" printed and/or handwritten on face of certificate.
Missing: NONE.
Finish: OFF-WHITE PAPER HAS ELABORATE BLACK SCRIP; SOME INFORMATION RECORDED IN BLUE INK.
Decoration: N/A

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MOLER BARBER COLLEGE, Certificate, 1923, Artifact no. 1999.0193, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1999.0193.001/

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