PEN
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- PEN NIB
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- STEEL
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041405
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Other Name
- PEN NIB
- Date Range From
- 1950
- Date Range To
- 1960
- Materials
- STEEL
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.1
- Length
- 4.38
- Width
- 0.8
- Description
- STEEL PEN NIB WITH FLAME SHAPED TIP THAT HAS KEY HOLE SHAPED HOLE IN IT. BASE HAS "ESTHERBROOK OVAL POINT 788" AND "MADE IN U.S.A." STAMPED INTO IT.
- Subjects
- WRITTEN COMMUNICATION T&E
- Historical Association
- BUSINESS
- History
- PEN NIB WAS USED BY DONOR'S FATHER, REV. G.G. NAKAYAMA, WHO CORRESPONDED REGULARLY WITH PARISHONERS, MISSIONARIES AND OTHERS AROUND THE WORLD HE HAD MET. HE ALSO PUBLISHED NEWSLETTERS AND NEWSPAPERS FOR THE JAPANESE CANADIAN COMMUNITY. THIS IS ONE OF MANY ITEMS HE POSSESSED TO PERFORM THESE TASKS. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHEN THEY WERE INTERNED AT SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. THE DONOR'S FATHER, REV. CANON G.G. NAKAYAMA, WAS AN ANGLICAN MINISTER IN VANCOUVER, AND THEN ESTABLISHED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION IN COALDALE IN 1945 WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041405
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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