Blista Pocket Slate

Slate, Pocket

Accession Number: 2012.41.11

Description: Gray plastic pocket slate; piano hinge on one side, steel wire; four (4) lines of twenty-six (26) braille cells; straight rectangular windows in upper frame; bottom frame stamped with six indented holes under each opening in the top frame; indents in both frames at outer end facilitates opening; four paper registration pins up from lower frame fit into holes in upper frame; cast on top, "Blista/Blindenstudienanstalt/Marburg-Lahn-Germany".

Height: 8

Width: 2

Depth: 0.25

Date Made: ca. 2000

Place of Origin: Marburg, Germany

Collection: APH Collection

History/Provenance: APH Collection

Credit Line: APH Collection, 2012.41.

Subjects: Braille Slates Tactile writing

Dimension Notes: overall

Made: Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt

Material: Plastic, steel

Updated: 01/02/2013