Ace press
date: label: date made
content: mid 20th century
label: date made
content: ca 1950
name: label: maker
content: Superior Marking Equipment Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This children’s tin-plate rotary press for rubber type was made by the Superior Marking Equipment Company of Chicago in the mid-20th century. The press has a height of 6 inches a width of 10.5 inches and a length of 16 inches.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Superior Marking Equipment Company, or SMECO, has made a series of lightweight children’s presses as by-products to its line of office stamps and markers. The Cub press, described separately, is a smaller edition of the Ace.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Donated by R. Stanley Nelson, 1991.
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: Illinois, Chicago
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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: 1991.0800.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0800.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0800
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Press, printing
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: sheet steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 13 in x 9 in; 20.32 cm x 33.02 cm x 22.86 cm