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- noun Plural form of
electrotype .
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Gutta-percha impressions and electrotypes were finally created, the current lot being one of the rare original electrotypes.
Waterloo Medal by Benedetto Pistrucci : Coin Collecting News 2008
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Gutta-percha impressions and electrotypes were finally created, the current lot being one of the rare original electrotypes.
Waterloo Medal by Benedetto Pistrucci : Coin Collecting News 2008
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For this sixty-first thousand, fresh electrotypes have been taken from the wood-blocks (which, never having been used for printing from, are in as good condition as when first cut in 1871), and the whole book has been set up afresh with new type.
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The galvanoplastic process of M. Coblence for obtaining electrotypes of wood-engravings is as follows: A frame is laid upon a marble block, and then covered with a solution of wax, colophane, and turpentine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885 Various
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Paradise by Ghiberti, a shield by Cellini, a statue by Michael Angelo, are better than all reproductions and imitations, better than plaster casts by Eichler, electrotypes by Barbedienne, or chromos by Prang.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 Various
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In the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford excellent facsimile electrotypes of early Greek weapons are exhibited; and these have far more value in bringing the Past before us than the actual weapons of that period, corroded and broken, would have.
The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology Arthur E. P. B. Weigall
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As a matter of fact, indeed, "plates," or electrotypes of monotyped matter, are by no means a necessity.
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-- We have recently added to our establishment excellent facilities for making electrotypes, and also three power presses specially fitted for printing plates of all sizes in the finest manner.
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A circular, issued about 1841, gives the necessary instructions for engraving, and the prices for the wax-coated plates and the subsequent electrotypes, and shows many beautiful illustrations made by artists of that time.
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Just as the typographic printer uses electrotypes in place of the original type or cuts, the lithographer makes transfers from the original stones to print his edition and carefully preserves the original stones for future editions.
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