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| chandler & price PRINTING PRESS http://tinyurl.com/7u7f9co |
ANTIQUE Printing PRESSES are all the rage with many dealers and collectors
looking for these rare nostalgic industrial tools of the trade to recreate authentic printing
press products.
Artists, scrap-bookers, multimedia arts, potters, are on the lookout for not only lead type face lettering but the old press cabinet drawers - so the a twenty drawer cabinet with the typeface contents is an exciting find all on its own!
This rare old printing press find is a Chandler and Price Craftsman Old Style with the tell tale curves on the flywheel. Harrison T. Chandler, an Illinois banker, while negotiating to buy an interest in the Cleveland Type Foundry, met William H. Price, son of a builder of printing presses. They founded the Chandler & Price Co. of Cleveland to build printing equipment.
Artists, scrap-bookers, multimedia arts, potters, are on the lookout for not only lead type face lettering but the old press cabinet drawers - so the a twenty drawer cabinet with the typeface contents is an exciting find all on its own!
This rare old printing press find is a Chandler and Price Craftsman Old Style with the tell tale curves on the flywheel. Harrison T. Chandler, an Illinois banker, while negotiating to buy an interest in the Cleveland Type Foundry, met William H. Price, son of a builder of printing presses. They founded the Chandler & Price Co. of Cleveland to build printing equipment.
This CHANDLER & PRICE hand fed open platen jobbing press is marked:"The CHANDLER & PRICE Co CLEVELAND, OHIO, USA"
and has a brass plate marked:
"SOLE AGENTS TORONTO TYPE FOUNDRY Co LIMITED TORONTO MONTREAL HALIFAX WINNIPEG"
- marked PAT APRIL 2 87 (1887) No 1060.
The PRESS CABINET has 20 drawers full of original lead typeface and is a fabulous find all on its own! A great antique cabinet full of history!
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| 20 drawer PRESS CABINET full of letterpress TYPEFACE http://tinyurl.com/7u7f9co |
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ReplyDeletelooking for a W in lead typeface, approx. 8mm or 1/4 inch? you got???
ReplyDeleteHi Angela - I do have a lot of typeface for sale in my online shop Inktiques at https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/Inktiques?section_id=11237521
DeleteI can also custom any grouping - check it out and email me so I have your contact and can send pics of the 'W''s I have thriftydiversions at gmail dot com