Press moulds now open visible

29 November 2021

Anyone who has searched for tools in our sub-collection will no doubt remember that all press moulds were presented in closed position. That had to do with the system of sorting, but for the visitors that was rather inconvenient. The order of these images has changed over the past two weeks, so that the first image now shows the press mould in open position. This makes it much easier to recognize a particular pipe shape. If you don't know the work behind the scenes of digitization, you won't realize that conversion was a manual job. It turned out to be more than forty hours of intensive work, but it is well worth the time investment. Look at the result via this link: https://pipemuseum.nl/en/open-moulds

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