Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This patent model demonstrates an invention for a vise that held the engraving plate firmly, while offering the yielding surface that the engraver needed; the invention was granted patent number 27253.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Wood, A. H.
- date made
- ca 1860
- patent date
- 1860-02-21
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 13 cm x 7 cm x 7 cm; 5 1/8 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in
- Object Name
- manufacture, engravers vice
- Object Type
- Patent Model
