17th October 2006, 10:36 AM
We used it on the IFA training the trainers project at Mont Beuvray a couple of years ago. can't remember what it was called, I think it was probably really inventively referred to as the labelling/numbering gadget/gizmo thing. I was impressed with it, you can number thousands of pieces very easily, but it is tricky, you have to watch what you are doing. The machine we were using was quite old (I think), and it was easy to miss the number, or get the wrong context number, and so on, but then that can easily go wrong doing it all by hand. They were using for the entire archive at Mont Beuvray, a massive undertaking. The machine was good, but probably best for huge assemblages of fairly sturdy material. I have an idea that we were told it was fairly pricey to buy, which is why it wasn't used more frequently.