Business card plate

Museum number:
9-22038
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
BY.T-152a-c and T-152a-c (original number)
Description:
Business card stamp- printing device. The business card says "THEOS BERNARD" and has a seal consising of a Jewish "Seal of Solomon" star with red and blue interlocking triangles and the Sanskrit syllable OM in its center on the thoat of a cobra whose head is behind the star and whose coils surround it. Under this is the lengend in Tibetan characters "bden pa tshang ma dam pa red" which means something to the effect of "All truth is sublime.
Collection place:
United States
Verbatim coll. place:
USA
Collector:
Theos C. Bernard
Materials:
Bronze (metal), Ink, Iron (metal), and Paper (fiber product)
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
7.0 Use not specified (Communication, Records, Currency, and Measures)
Production date:
20th century
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Business card plate, accession number 9-22038, described as Business card stamp- printing device. The business card says "THEOS BERNARD" and has a seal consising of a Jewish "Seal of Solomon" star with red and blue interlocking triangles and the Sanskrit syllable OM in its center on the thoat of a cobra whose head is behind the star and whose coils surround it. Under this is the lengend in Tibetan characters "bden pa tshang ma dam pa red" which means something to the effect of "All truth is sublime.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Business card plate, accession number 9-22038, described as Business card stamp- printing device. The business card says "THEOS BERNARD" and has a seal consising of a Jewish "Seal of Solomon" star with red and blue interlocking triangles and the Sanskrit syllable OM in its center on the thoat of a cobra whose head is behind the star and whose coils surround it. Under this is the lengend in Tibetan characters "bden pa tshang ma dam pa red" which means something to the effect of "All truth is sublime.

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