Patent Model for a Card Gauge for Platen Printing Press
date: label: date made
content: ca 1873
label: patent date
content: 1873-11-02
name: label: inventor
content: Golding, William H.
label: maker
content: Golding, William H.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a card guage for a platen printing press; the invention was granted patent number 145101. This invention provided a card feeder for Golding's Pearl press, which was covered by a patent of 1871 taken out by William L. Balch and assigned to Golding and his partner Edward Dennison (Patent 118182). William Golding (1845–1916) was apprenticed to a printer at the age of 15, and set up The Printer Manufactory Company at 23 with his partner, Edward Dennison. The company at first supplied stamps and seals and other stationery goods, but soon moved into the manufacture of small presses for amateurs, such as the Pearl, and then full-sized jobbing presses. Two years after Golding's death, the company was sold to the American Type Founders Company, which continued the manufacture of his presses for some years.
place: label: associated place
content: United States
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Patent Models
label: Exhibition
content: Printing at Home
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0062.08
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0062.08
label: patent number
content: 145101
label: accession number
content: 1996.0062
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model; press, printing
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20.8 cm x 28.5 cm x 17.7 cm; 8 3/16 in x 11 7/32 in x 6 31/32 in