grindstone
notes: label: Description
content: Squarish block of dark stone used for leveling the surface of another stone (GA*03210.20) used to sharpen knives and chisels. 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. 19 in watercolor drawing GA 03209.02 showing the tools of the block cutter.
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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.03210.19
label: accession number
content: 22582
label: catalog number
content: 03210.19
objectType: label: Object Name
content: grindstone
label: Object Name
content: grindstone
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 cm x 4 cm x 3 cm; 1 9/16 in x 1 9/16 in x 1 3/16 in