ANTIQUE 1930S ELLAMS LONDON SCREEN PRINTING DUPLICATOR SET (ANTIQUE PORTABLE COPYING MACHNE!)

AN INTERESTING AND RARELY SEEN AND HISTORIC ITEM. A ELLAMS DUPLICATOR PATENT 230345 SELF RISING DIAPHRAGM MODEL SCREEN PRINTING SET FROM THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY.
BASICLY AN ANTIQUE PORTABLE COPYING MACHINE ALSO CALLED A MIMEOGRAPH.
MADE BY THE ELLAMS DUPLICATOR CO LTD, 12 KING ST LONDON. THE STARTED IN 1910 AND ARE STILL IN BUSINESS.

The rectangular wooden case, fitted with nickel-plated safety catch lock and surmounted by a spindle turned ebonised wooden carry handle is an antique handmade artwork in itself with tappet joints and all.

It encloseses a flat bed/printing board and a hinged spring action silkscreen duplicator stencil board. With a smaller mounted wooden framed inking slate and ink roller.

SIZE OF CASE: 51.5CM WID 39CM DEEP 15,4CM HIGH.

CONDITION: Age wearing evident, split to the case, minor losses to stencil board.

Note: To prepare a handwritten stencil, A sheet of Mimeograph stencil paper is placed over the finely grooved steel plate and written upon with a smooth pointed steel stylus, and in the line of the writing so made, the stencil paper will be perforated from the under side with minute holes, in such close proximity to each other that the dividing fibres of paper are scarcely perceptible. After the operator has written a few lines, the operator moves the stencil upward over the writing plate so that a new portion of the stencil is on top of the writing plate. After the stencil is completed it is placed in the printing frame, by which the stencil is firmly held taut and in a position for rapid printing. After inking the roller on the slate furnished for that purpose, pass it over the stencil sheet and a correct reproduction of the matter stencilled will appear on the paper which has been previously placed underneath.
Reference: http://www.officemuseum.com/copy_machines.htm

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