National Museum of American History
Patent Model of a Hand Stamp
Whipple, Cullen · ca 1864
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a hand stamp which was granted patent number 45000. The stamp has a sliding bed covering an ink pad. One of the two hand levers pressed the type to the bed. The other pulled the bed back as the type was re-inked at the ink pad.
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