Comit press
date: label: date made
content: late 19th century
label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This table-top, flatbed platen proofing press dates from the late 19th century. The press chase measures 6.25 inches by 9.25 inches; its height is 8 inches and width 10.75 inches.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The little Comit (or Comet) press was sold and perhaps made by Robert S. Menamin, of Philadelphia, a publisher and printing equipment dealer, as a quick proofing press for wood engravers. Its bed is pushed under the platen by hand, and the platen is lowered by a crank-operated eccentric shaft. This particular press is alleged to have been used by missionaries in China.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Found in the collections, 1948.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Citation: Elizabeth M. Harris, "Printing Presses in the Graphic Arts Collection," 1996. Elizabeth M. Harris, "Personal Impressions, The Small Printing Press in Nineteenth-Century America," 2004.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Printing Presses in the Graphic Arts Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.19991
label: accession number
content: 1948.179703
label: catalog number
content: 19991
objectType: label: Object Name
content: press, printing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 10 3/4 in; 20.32 cm x 27.305 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/4 in x 23 1/2 in x 14 in; 20.955 cm x 59.69 cm x 35.56 cm