FMNH 180361.6

  • 180361: Wood block
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    Description: Wooden block, Korean bronze movable type approximately 1/2" square Nine pieces of cast bronze movable type. Background, a page size wood block. Bulletin caption: Nine specimens of bronze movable type made in Korea during the fifteenth century to print Chinese books. The type are lying on a wood block cut to print a whole page, which is an alternative method. The three top specimens are face up: the half-size type in the middle is for printing footnotes; the five type on back or sides show groove in bottom for attachment to wax in bottom of chase.
  • 180361: Wood block, Korean bronze
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: Wooden block, Korean bronze movable type approximately 1/2" square Nine pieces of cast bronze movable type. Background, a page size wood block. Bulletin caption: Nine specimens of bronze movable type made in Korea during the fifteenth century to print Chinese books. The type are lying on a wood block cut to print a whole page, which is an alternative method. The three top specimens are face up: the half-size type in the middle is for printing footnotes; the five type on back or sides show groove in bottom for attachment to wax in bottom of chase.
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    Creator: Andrew J. Leith : Field Museum of Natural History - Anthropology
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Catalog Number: 180361.6
Description: movable printing type
Materials: metal; bronze
Cultural Attribution: Korean
Accession Number: [2193] T. E. Donnelley (Gift)
Accession Year:
City/Town: Seoul
Collector/Source: Thomas E. Donnelley, James S. Gale
EMu IRN: 1373650
GUID: 9ceedf35-d203-47ee-a04e-fa4d8143c90a

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