WRICO Lettering Guide
date: label: date made
content: 1970
name: label: maker
content: Wood-Regan Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: This lettering set is stored in a wooden case. Sixteen plastic lettering guides, a metal guide holder with rough surface, a metal scriber, a plastic scriber adjuster, three metal inkwells, twenty numbered plastic tubes, seventeen points distributed among the tubes, a metal needle holder wrapped in paper and containing six metal needles, a paper envelope containing four needles, and a plastic pen handle are included. A cardboard sheet lists the contents of the set.
label: Description
content: Each lettering guide has capital letters, lower case letters, numbers, and symbols written on it. The scriber makes it possible to copy the letters at various angles. The scriber adjuster sets the scriber. The scriber can hold any of three inkwells, which in turn hold different points and needles.
label: Description
content: Machinist and museum specialist George A. Norton purchased the pieces of the set in July and September of 1970 at George F. Muth Company in Washington, D.C. He spent a total of $17.38.
label: Description
content: For documentation and receipts, see 1989.0572.02 and 1989.0572.03.
label: Description
content: An earlier version of the WRICO set, not dependent upon a scriber to translate the letters, appears in a 1926 catalog of Eugene Dietzgen Co.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Eugene Dietzgen Company, <I>Catalogue</I>, Chicago, 1926, pp. 212-213.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Drawing Templates
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of George A. Norton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0572.01
label: accession number
content: 1989.0572
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0572.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Template
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 cm x 37.7 cm x 12.5 cm; 1 31/32 in x 14 27/32 in x 4 29/32 in