Trade cards, Cigarette cards, Labels, Coins etc.

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Linotype Ladies



"Lois Thompson, printer's devil on the Nicholas Republican newspaper, operating Linotype machine." September 1942. Richwood, Nicholas County, West Virginia.
Photo by John Collier for the Farm Security Administration.



A Linotype operator at work in the pressroom.



Jan. 29, 1942 Linotype machine at the News-Journal Company, Gloria Warren. 1306-000-000 #2459. From the DeDO collection at the Delaware Public Archives. www.archives.delaware.gov



A young Marajen Stevick Chinigo learns how to operate the linotype machine that was used in the press room in the original office at 48 Main Street, in Champaign. © 2024 Champaign Multimedia Group, LLC. All rights reserved.



Linotype operator. Chicago, Illinois by Russell Lee



A linotype machine operator at a publishing house, 1920
This image also appeared on a postage stamp issued on 8 August 2013 in a series 'Building a Nation' - Linotype operator
       




Linotype operator c.1920

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Two more Linotype Ladies in with some male operators.

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Model 14 Linotype Full Size Magazines w/ Auxiliary Magazine Advertising Postcard

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Senefelder Notgeld from 1921

Dates   6 November 1771 - 6 November 1921

1 Mk




zum 150 jahrigen geburtstage -unsres altmeisters Alois Senefelder
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the old master Alois Senefelder

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More Senefelder notgeld









The notes show the monument to Senefelder which is located in the centre of Solnhofen. It was created in 1845 by Etienne Hippolyte Maindron (1801-1884) from Sabloniere limestone from southern France. Its original location was a Parisian salon. It was inaugurated in Solnhofen on October 9, 1904.In 1965, it was moved and a new base made of Jura marble was placed underneath, so that the total height is 3.5 m.                     



Incidentally, the best lithographic stone came from Solnhofen.

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USA  Bronze medal for 50 years devotion to the Graphic Arts.

Edward Everett Bartlett (1863-1942) renowned typeface designer, 1926. Edward Everett Bartlett was a printer and typographic director at Linotype.

He designed Garamond and Garamond Bold and the italic versions of both plus Elzevir no.3.

Reverse of the medal shows him at work surrounded by his tools and equipment with the legend in Scots Gaelic: chan ann dhuinn phein amhain – we don't have one pen.

Portrait of the printer on obverse, by R Marschall with text.

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Number 7 in a series of 100 from Franklin Mint        U.S. History (Bicentennial) Ingots
Issued from 1975 to 1983



The Liberator was a weekly newspaper of abolitionist crusader William Lloyd Garrison for 35 years. It was the most influential antislavery periodical in the pre-Civil War period of U.S. history.

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The Genius of America Ingots Collection (Franklin Mint, 1984)  Silver



Also issued in bronze   



The last image is not the best of images.

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1900's - 1910's advertising watch fob for Mergenthaler Linotype Company.
The centre of the watch fob features an elaborate, high-relief detailed image of a linotype machine. The reverse reads: MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE CO.      THE LINOTYPE WAY IS THE ONLY WAY   in embossed lettering. THE GREEN DUCK CO. CHICAGO at bottom

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1920s Linotype 'Don't Worry Club' Good Luck token, manufactured by the Green Duck Co., Chicago.

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1976  Postmasters of America    Commemorative Medal   
Sterling Silver Coin from the  Franklin Mint

A Jacob Perkins press which was used to print the first 'Penny Black' stamps can be seen on the right

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Liebig card from a series titled 'Bevordering Van De Arbeid Door Grote Belgen' (Promotion of work by Great Belgians)     Issued in 1958

The first card in the set was Dirk Martens

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Liebig card from a series titled 'Histoire de nos provinces-  Anvers'   (History of our provinces -  Anvers)             Issued in 1951
Number four in the set was 'les archiducs Albert et Isabelle chez Jean Moretus (1599)'        (the Archdukes Albert and Isabella at Jean Moretus' (1599))

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Medal - The centenary of Muharram Industrial Printing Press     1985



Obverse
A drawing of the company building.

Lettering:
Moharrem Press
1885 1985
EGYPT
ALEXANDERIA

Reverse
Moharrem Press Logo.

Lettering:
العيد المئوى
شركة مطابع محرم الصناعية
تأسست عام ١٨٨٥

Translation:
Centennial
Muharram Industrial Printing Press
Founded in 1885

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Token - Paul Dupont lithography bookstore printing



Obverse
Joined busts of Johannes Gutenberg and Aloys Senefelder.

Lettering:
GUTTEMBERG. 1436 SENEFELDER. 1796
MONTAGNY .F

Reverse
The letters P and D within a wreath formed by an oak branch and a laurel branch.

Lettering:
PRINTING BOOKSTORE LITHOGRAPHY
PD
PAUL DUPONT ET CIE