Lightweight Aluminum Pocket Slate

Slate, Pocket

Accession Number: 2015.20.14

Description: Bright aluminum pocket slate; piano hinge on left; four (4) rows of twenty-eight (28) cells; slight indents in windows of top frame, recessed holes in lower frame; raised horizontal line between row two and three; raised dots every five columns above row one and row three; Dymo tape slots outside row three; four registration pins (down) on top frame; top frame molded on outer edge above a matching cutout on the lower frame (to facilitate opening); stamped beside hinge, "Advance/MADE IN INDIA".

Date Made: ca. 2003

Maker: Advance Engineering Works

Place of Origin: India

Credit Line: Gift of Linda Gissoni, 2015.20.

Subjects: Braille Slates Tactile writing

Made: Advance Engineering Works

Material: Aluminum

Updated: 06/25/2019