Wooden block for printing wallpaper. [BS [OPS Move] 13/7/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Wooden block for printing wallpaper. [BS [OPS Move] 13/7/2017]
Long description: Wooden block for printing wallpaper. The block is rectangular in shape and consists of three layers of planks of wood and a layer of intricately carved raised wooden designs which have been nailed onto the upper layer of wood. The wood is dark in colour and the nails appear to have rusted badly. The carved designs have broken in places. The block has the number 760 carved into one edge which is presumably the pattern number. [BS [OPS Move] 13/7/2017]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Scotland Wales Northern Ireland
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Unknown Source
Date / Period: Date made: Before 2002
Date collected: By 2002
Acquisition information: Found unentered: 29/01/2002
Materials and processes: Material Iron Metal, Material Wood Plant, Process Nailed, Process Carved
Dimensions: Depth: max 57 mm, Width: max 413 mm, Length: max 545 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2002.18.2
Research and responses: This block is as likely to have been used in England as in any other part of the British Isles and I have therefore included it in the English ethnography project [AP 25/07/2006]

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