14pt Monotype Matrices - Colorado, USA These mats sold in record time, the day after they were posted on the Forum. Moral of the story: Use the red panel below to sign up to the "eBay Express" email to get early notification.
Re: Trade cards, Cigarette cards, stickers, etc.
F. Moras' Lithographic Establishment, Philadelphia between 1867 and 1869 -
Advertising or large business card shows two vignettes, on the left, a man is sitting at a table, drawing on a lithograph stone, and on the right, is an interior view of the lithographic establishment with men inking stones and operating presses.
Re: Model 31 restoration - Advice needed
To gain access to the escapement levers wind the magazines up as high as they can go. You should be able to get in to free the sticking levers.
Re: Model 31 restoration - Advice needed
Hi Roger, and welcome to the Forum. It sounds like you have made a good start in the restoration process, sorting out the keyboard cams, etc.
Re: Model 31 restoration - Advice needed
Roger, If I was standing beside you I might be able to tell you what to do. but I haven't worked at the trade since the early 1960's.
Re: Red Streak Linotype?
Dave the GREEN STREAK is a photoshop by me as a joke. Sorry I didn't make that clear.
Railroad Workers
Nice Twitter post from Dan Wood today, being based in the UK I'm not familiar with the news story, but being an ex railway worker (and Linotype operator) myself I couldn't resist:
Re: Red Streak Linotype?
At the risk of going off on a tangent, I love this old Intertype sign that Doug Wilson posted on Twitter a little while back.
Re: Red Streak Linotype?
That looks suspiciously like a Photoshopped image to me George, the poorly-aligned "STREAK" would never have got past the quality control of an old-school iron founder!
Re: Red Streak Linotype?
Why not a Green Streak. After all this is the century to save the planet.
