Plastic Interpoint Braille Tablet

Slate, Desk

Accession Number: 2014.18.1

Description: (a) Rectangular blue plastic board with rounded corners on bottom, twenty-four (24) lines of twenty-three (23) recessed braille cells, four interpoint registration pins up; hinged red plastic top frame, snaps to two bars on top of board, sides pierced with two columns of 12 holes to register the writing guide; Dymo tape slots below holes four and eight; cast into bottom of frame, "A.V.H. FRANCE": (b) two line red plastic braille writing guide, twenty three (23) cells; raised dots at top and bottom of guide measure off cells in groups of five; pins on wings fit into the registration holes on the tablet frame; notched on one wing.

Height: 11.75

Width: 7.5

Depth: 0.5

Date Made: ca. 1994

Maker: Association Valentin Haüy

Place of Origin: France

Credit Line: Gift of Mireille Duhen, 2014.18.

Subjects: Boards (writing) Braille Tactile writing Slates

Dimension Notes: overall

Made: Association Valentin Haüy

Material: Plastic

Updated: 07/06/2017