Can anyone ID this lead sqaure ancient thing?
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ncplumber
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Part of a printer's block ? Have you pressed in into something soft to see what it says ?
Bayoutalker
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Part of a printing plate. Coat it with some ink and press in on paper so you can read it.
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Bayoutalker
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They have been used for a long time. You might get a clue if you can read the text.
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BaldAssCat
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Had a book printer near where I grew up. Somewhere well before the mid 70s the switched from lead to resin. I found both around the field near the place and both were pretty old at the time.
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You might be able to google a phrase off of it, which may lead you to what/when/where/why....
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It's hard to tell, but in the second to last row, there's a word with a character in it that looks like the letter f. It doesn't read like it should be f, but as an s. If that is the case, then it could be dated back to the 1700s. I don't know when they stopped using that character in print, but I don't recall seeing it in any documents I've come across from the 1800s.
Can you clean it up a bit more, then take a good, in-focus picture, and reverse the image?
Can you clean it up a bit more, then take a good, in-focus picture, and reverse the image?
achaios
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Looks like part of an advertisement for some vitamin/medical supplement to me.
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Bayoutalker
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That letter looks like a "t" to me.
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dsorgnzd
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I believe that says " perfectly well".
