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This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. --------------- Dear all Please see email and images from a recent enquiry- we don't have a Curta Calculator in our collections or any references in any books- does anyone have a good source or anything more to say about them that I can pass on to the enquirer? Thanks! Clara Email from enquirer: My son, Adam, was given a Type 1 Curta Calculator (Serial Number 7269) by my father about 2001. He used to work as office services manager for British Steel, River Don Works in Sheffield from the mid 1950s and had this when he retired in 1979. The calculator has the instruction manual and is complete with the container tightening ring and both top and base rubber pads. It has a left had thread lid and is labelled with the supplier - Automatic Business Machines (abm) Limited 15 Cromwell Road London. I was wondering if you knew anything about these calculators? I would be interested in finding out more and especially if you have one in your collection. Many thanks Ian Battey Clara Morgan Curator of Social History Museums Sheffield Weston Park, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TP 0114 278 2644 [log in to unmask] http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/ http://www.facebook.com/MuseumsSheffieldhttp://www.twitter.com/MuseumSheffield http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/museums/millennium-gallery/exhibitions/current/the-family-in-british-art-1542-2003 Millennium Gallery Until 29 April 2012 Company Registration No. 3527746 & Registered Charity No. 1068850 as Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust. Registered Office: Riverside East, 2 Millsands, Sheffield, S3 8DT. This is an email from Museums Sheffield. Its contents are confidential to the intended recipient at the email address to which it has been addressed. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than this addressee, or may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact Museums Sheffield on +44-(0)114-278-2600 quoting the name of the sender and the addressee, then delete it from your system. Please note that neither Museums Sheffield nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). Museums Sheffield is the trading name of Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust and is the lead partner of the Yorkshire Museums Hub. It is an independent charity funded by Sheffield City Council, Museums Libraries and Archives Council and Arts Council England. The SHCG list is provided for members of Social History Curators Group to discuss subjects relevant to social history in museums. To join SHCG visit www.shcg.org.uk . Opinions expressed in this email are the responsibility of the author and are not necessarily shared by SHCG. To leave the list do not reply to this message but send an email to [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and these words as the body of the email: SIGNOFF SHCG-LIST