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wooden meter stick
wooden meter stick

wooden meter stick

Datecirca 1950
Inventory Number1998-1-0303
ClassificationMeter rule
Subject
    Maker Central Scientific Company 1889 - 2000
    Cultural Region
      Place of Origin
        Dimensions100.3 × 2.5 × 0.8 cm (39 1/2 × 1 × 5/16 in.)
        Material
          DescriptionWooden meter stick with brass caps on both ends. The face of the meter stick has a 39-inch scale, graduated into eighths, printed along its top edge. An scale in millimeters, graduated into tenths, is printed along both edges of the back of the stick.
          Signedface, bottom center: CENTRAL SCIENTIFIC CO. / Cenco No. 73120
          Inscribedback, right: MADE IN U.S.A.
          FunctionFor use in measuring distances.
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