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Metadata
Object ID # |
2017.073.004 |
Object Name |
Block, Printing |
Title |
Printer's Cut (Advertisement for Knight's of Meaford) |
Year Range from |
1945 |
Year Range to |
1960 |
Made |
Markdale Standard (The) |
Place of Origin |
Markdale, Municipality of Grey Highlands, Grey County |
Description |
A letterpress printer's advertising cut, a lead alloy casting that is mounted with four nails onto a square wooden block. This item was used by the Markdale Standard newspaper, but in reverse lettering advertises a product from another area of the County. It has an advertisement for "KNIGHT'S OF MEAFORD" Phone 94 RETAIL DIVISION WHERE QUALITY & EXCELLENCE MEET". |
Provenance |
Knights of Meaford was a hardware flooring manufacturer at the town of Meaford, in Grey County (F. Stanley Knight). They would have run advertisements in various newspapers /publications. This item was used at/kept by the Markdale Standard newspaper office at the village of Markdale in Grey County. At an unknown date, prior to 2005, the item was given to the Beavercrest Community School at Markdale. |
Collection |
Printing & Bindery Equipment, 20th-c Collection |
Material |
Wood/Metal/Lead |
Dimensions |
H-2.2 W-3.9 L-3.9 cm |
Found |
Markdale, Municipality of Grey Highlands, Grey County |
People |
Knight, Stanley Knight, Dick |
Subjects |
Advertisements Letterpress works Newspapers Floors |
Search Terms |
Meaford Industries & Products Markdale Standard Stanley Knight Limited |
Function |
A letterpress printer's advertising "cut". This one was used at the MARKDALE STANDARD newspaper office in Grey County. Similar cuts were likely also at other newspaper offices in Grey County and elsewhere, wherever the Knights of Meaford company needed to print their advertisements. They were a hardwood flooring company. Letterpress printing declined in the 1960s. The advertisement has a telephone number that pre-dates the mid-1960s when seven-digit telephone numbers were introduced in this area. |