Summary
List of alphabetical and numerical characters, and punctuation marks, with their representations in Morse and Continental codes of dots and dashes.
Physical Description
Piece of reinforced (fabric gauze) paper, folded in centre. Underlying the details of list there are remnants of text from the original use of the paper.The list of characters appear on one side only and have been hand printed in black ink. The top half of the list is divided into three types of characters, alphabetical/ numerical, morse and continental. The bottom section of the list displays morse, continental and phillips characters. On the reverse side of the paper there are handwritten notes in pencil and a musical scale.
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Mr Brian O'Shaunassey, 26 May 2003
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Inscriptions
'TELEGRAPH CHARACTERS/ MORSE/CONTINENTAL/ MORSE/CONTINENTAL/ A,B,C,D...' 'Short Numerals Generally Used by Continental Operators...'
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Overall Dimensions
213 mm (Length), 147 mm (Width)