printing press plates, vietnam, wwII ??

[Weezbad]

found these in an area where i found 25 wheats, 1 merc, 2 rosies, and a 1917 walker half. I think they are lead.

"a total of 7731 men enlisted as"
"after spending the recent few"

[Silversmith45]

Linotype. We used it in printing class in the early 60's but I think it was about to be phased out.

[boretti4blues]

That's cool...My Dad still uses a letterpress..he has a Heidelberg press from the early 1900's. It's pretty cool, he locks the moveable type in a frame and the ink is rolled over it then pressed into the paper. It's a lost artform..everything is digital or offset these days. Nice find..

[Weezbad]

Originally Posted by boretti4blues

That's cool...My Dad still uses a letterpress..he has a Heidelberg press from the early 1900's. It's pretty cool, he locks the moveable type in a frame and the ink is rolled over it then pressed into the paper. It's a lost artform..everything is digital or offset these days. Nice find..

it must have been quite troublesome to make the plates from lead then to print the whole paper with made plates.. i suppose they just remelt the plates... seem like a bunch of work. i also found a ladies dress button and a tiny 50 cent sized make up tin that flips open..made by the luxor company.

[flphil]

Yes they are lead. No they are not plates just lead type. You should recycle them. My other career is in printing. They are from a linotype as earlier post stated. Used in a letterpress.

[Weezbad]

are you saying just the letters are lead, laid on the plates?

[boretti4blues]

All lead I believe...My Dad use to take me to the place that made them.. It was a big machine that they loaded with lead blanks. The machine would melt down the lead and the operator would type the letters on this huge typewriter looking thing and the finished type would drop down a slide.... Pretty cool if I recall.

[stewart73]

Found something about "a grand total of 7731 men enlisted" in this 1929 document from North Carolina (don't know if it's related but it IS the exact number):

http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-en...1929-tro.shtml

First Regiment Field Artillery Quartermasters Corps
making a total of 277 officers, and 7,454 enlisted men — a grand
total of 7,731. Of the Naval Militia 18 officers and 187 men (total
215) were called into Federal service April 6, 1917, as National
Naval Volunteers. The record these troops made in the World
War is a source of pride to all North Carolinians.