Museum number:

APM 20.938

Subcollection:

labels and tobacco wrappers

Title:

printing block

Keyword:

Oldambster coat of arms, barrels

Description:

Printing block or cliché of cast brass with in a horizontal rectangle of volute-shaped leaves on the left and right, from which tobacco leaves on the left and raisins on the right, central city profile with four church towers. Heavy casting with two thick and four thin holes for attachment to a wooden printing block.

Date:

Period

1820 - 1870

Dimensions:

General	Height	3.07 in (7.8 cm)
	Width	3.23 in (8.2 cm)
	Thickness	0.47 in (1.2 cm)
Weight		502 gram