Letterpress museum
Briarpress.org has a delicious online museum. Dozens of virtual printing presses are here, richly linked and organised, displayed with other tools of the trade. And there is an illustrated glossary of letterpress terms — handy if you don’t know your frisket from your tympan. I admire the clarity of words, pictures and navigation. My congratulations to Eric Nevin and the other authors.
I have 19 letterpress cuts from the 1920s U.S. that appear to be very large by the only gauge I know, ..sales on Ebay. Two them are about 18-19 inches long and most are about 8x3 inches.
The only thing I have seen on Ebay are dingbats.
Found these in a building I rented in 1990 and they sat in a box, forgotten, for 13 years.
How do I determine a value for these as collectibles? Is there any value?
They are all of 1920s fashions and were used by a fashion store to advertise their wares. I think they survived the scrap metal drives of WWII only because the building sat vacant for 60 years.
Thank you,
Blake Olson
San Antonio, Texas
Hi Blake
I suggest you ask Gene Gable about this.