The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Mattoir

(or Mace-Head) a tool for metal engraving, primarily by dotting in order to give a printed effect like crayon. It looks like a steel pestle with a spherical or club-shaped thickening and has pins with which depressions are struck into a plate (dots and lines).

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