Golding Improved Pearl No. 11 jobber
date: label: Date made
content: circa 1900
label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Golding Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This platen jobber with a clamshell mechanism was made by William Golding of Boston beginning about 1900. Its chase (missing) measures 7 inches by 11 inches.
label: Description (Brief)
content: William Golding of Boston set up shop as a printer’s supply house in 1869, and soon graduated to the manufacture of seals, then small amateur presses, and finally full-size jobbing presses. The very popular Pearl series, which had a simple clamshell mechanism, was introduced under a patent of 1871, and went through a number of models. The “Improved Pearl,” with impression throw-off lever, arrived in 1895. This specimen is from the 1900 series.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Donated by Melba Trilli Geckner, Guido P. Trilli, and Delmo F. Trilli, 1976.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Citation: Elizabeth Harris, "Printing Presses in the Graphic Arts Collection," 1996.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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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.24289
label: accession number
content: 1977.0066
label: catalog number
content: GA*24289
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Press, Printing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 1/2 in x 28 in x 36 in; 11.43 cm x 71.12 cm x 91.44 cm