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Edouard Dusauchoit

Brochure for a Signalling Horn

Ghent, 1861

Object data

paper

height 10 cm (6 pp.) × width 15.8 cm

Inscriptions

  • inscription, on the cover: Over deze signaal / hoorn in 1862 van / den Kapitein Luiten. / Jonkh. van Capelle / ontvangen handeling / Exh 1 aug 1862 n 50 / 29 sept 1862 n 9 BREVET D’INVENTION / NOTICE / SUR LE / PORTE-VOIX-SIGNAL, / INVENTÉ PAR / Edouard Dusauchoit [...] / Breveté par arrêté de M. le Ministre de l’intérieur de Belgique, / en date du 9 septembre 1858, sous le Nº 6236.

Provenance

...; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1862;1 transferred to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-1124

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Six-page booklet concerning a patent signalling horn, in a blue paper wrapper. The signalling horn that originally accompanied the brochure is missing, however. The brochure does not describe the apparatus, but simply enumerates its possible applications: for the police, railways, shipping, industry, etc.

Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1124

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Edouard Dusauchoit, Brochure for a Signalling Horn, Ghent, 1861', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244937

(accessed 28 November 2024 03:57:28).

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