The large museum I intern at uses 16 regular blank wooden blocks with
stick-on numbers and letters. Whenever we need to take accession photos,
we just take the box of blocks out. The letters and number are set on
the blocks, which aren't square/box blocks, but rather ramp-like with 3
sides for the stickers.
The people in collections made them for photographing objects. Very
inexpensive, but takes some smarts to ensure you're initially placing
the stickers in a way that allows you to not run out of a number when it
comes to setting the accession number for a photo.
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