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DIGGER27

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• Apr 27, 2017

• #1

Always wanted to find one of those cool reversed stamping plates I see posted every so often.
Today was the day...found part of one, anyway.
In a curb strip next to an old park, no less.

Another target knocked off the axillary bucket list.

 

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Iggyks

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• Apr 27, 2017

• #2

Cool - a letterpress printing engraving. I wonder why they end up in the dirt? Would have been mounted on wood so that the print surface was .918 high ("type high"). Maybe the metal portions were pulled off for scrap and some of them got lost in the dirt. We still have the equipment at my work to print with these.

 

SueK

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• Apr 27, 2017

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Very nice. I'd love to find something like that.

 

ffgrizzley

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• Apr 27, 2017

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Iggyks said:

Cool - a letterpress printing engraving. I wonder why they end up in the dirt? Would have been mounted on wood so that the print surface was .918 high ("type high"). Maybe the metal portions were pulled off for scrap and some of them got lost in the dirt. We still have the equipment at my work to print with these.

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Some of on here grew up on them too! Hahaha! Nice find Digger! Those are always neat to find.