Duplicator

Duplicator
Originally uploaded by stevie t.

This is a modern version of a stencil duplicator, made in China, as it happens, by the Gold Company. But it works very much as such a machine would have worked in 1900. A stencil is typed onto a special sheet of stencil paper that is then wrapped round a drum. As you turn the handle the drum rotates and ordinary paper is fed in at the base. The ink prints through the stencil onto the paper and you can then print many copies of the original.