chisel
notes: label: Description
content: Wooden handle with semi-circular metal blade held in place by metal ferrule at base. (Ferrule is missing) Chisel for removing wood between the lines of the design in a woodblock. One of a group of woodblock-cutter's tools used in Graphic Arts exhibit of Japanese printmaking techniques from about 1890 to 1990s. Identified as No. 17 in watercolor drawing GA 03209.02 showing the tools of the block cutter.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Tokuno Gift
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of T. Tokuno, Chief of the Japanese Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Insatsukyoku), 1889-90
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.03210.17
label: accession number
content: 22582
label: catalog number
content: 03210.17
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chisel
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18.5 cm; 7 9/32 in