Patent Model of a Platen Printing Press
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850
label: patent date
content: 1850-06-04
name: label: maker
content: Hawkes, Charles W.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This patent model demonstrates an invention for a platen printing press which was granted patent number 7413. The platen jobbing press was manufactured as Hawkes's Lion.
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content: Communications
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dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.89797.007413
label: patent number
content: 7413
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: catalog number
content: GA*89797.007413
objectType: label: Object Name
content: press, printing
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: press, printing; print; press, platen jobber, Hawkes
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 28 cm x 23 cm x 30 cm; 11 in x 9 1/16 in x 11 13/16 in