Stamp For Visiting Cards
date: label: Accession Date
content: 4 Jan 1890
name: label: Donor Name
content: William W. Rockhill
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "With red paper cards. Mr. Rockhill's private stamp. Label: 'Stamp and visiting cards. - Stamp cut on a wooden block; the cards are of brilliant red paper. Used all over China; the size of the characters composing the name and position they occupy on the card vary according to one's rank. High officials only stamp their name in the middle of their cards; all others put theirs on the right side, a little below the middle.'" As of 2006, this object consists of the stamp (wooden printing block with three Chinese characters) and 48 rectangular red paper visiting cards - 3 of which have name in stamped characters printed by woodblock in black on the front and the numbers 54 and 55 written on the back, and 45 of which are unstamped/blank.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 49
place: label: Place
content: China, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Not Given
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 022699
label: USNM Number
content: E131203-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Printing Block / Visiting Card