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Guillotine Paper Cutter
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- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- metal; plastic; paint
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.1131
- Description
- A mainly black paper cutter with a red wooden handle. On the viewer-right edge is a long, steel blade (often referred to as a knife), which is attached to the base at the top viewer-right corner with a hinge. At the other end of the knife unit is a red, wooden handle. The stationary viewer-right e…
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- Title
- Guillotine Paper Cutter
- Date
- n.d.
- Material
- metal; plastic; paint
- Dimensions
- 4.0 x 11.0 x 29.0 cm
- Description
- A mainly black paper cutter with a red wooden handle. On the viewer-right edge is a long, steel blade (often referred to as a knife), which is attached to the base at the top viewer-right corner with a hinge. At the other end of the knife unit is a red, wooden handle. The stationary viewer-right edge of the base is also steel, with an exposed, “deckled” edge (which produces a “torn edge” effect on the paper). When the knife is pulled down to cut the paper, the action resembles that of a pair of scissors, only instead of two knives moving against each other, the one on the base is stationary. There is a red plastic strip across the top and bottom edges of the paper cutter’s base. The strip across the top edge is a ruler and contains: “2 ½” “2” “1 ½” “1 inch” marked in gold paint. On the viewer-right edge of the paper cutter’s base, adjacent to the steel edge, is a clear plastic strip with a ruler marked in red paint. The paper slides under this plastic strip, past the steel edge, in order to be cut. On the bottom of the paper cutter is the text “MADE IN GERMANY” engraved in a circular orientation.
- Subject
- Nicholas Morant
- photographic
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Nicholas Morant, Banff, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- 104.41.1131
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