Trade cards, Cigarette cards, Labels, etc.

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Bronze medal from 1930           Ottmar Mergenthaler

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The poster "This is a Printing Office" was written and designed by Beatrice Warde in the 1930s with the excuse of showing Perpetua by Eric Gill. Since then this inspiring text has graced many printers around the world.



In Gaelic

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A series showing how a heliogravure image is made using four colours

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Four Senefelder cards from c1890 overprinted for various stores

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Not the best of images.

Back of card mentions Italtype -Italian manufacturer, a subsidiary of Linotype, which produced composing machines and block-line casting machines.

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Tengelmann Kaffee card dating from the mid 1930's
I have no information on the back of the card

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Gartmann Schokolade cards (date unknown)

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1887    Lone Jack Cigarettes    Inventors and Inventions

 

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I have put this post here as opposed to the paper making and movable type threads as it encompasses both disciplines as well as others.

The World's First "One Man Book"

In 1915-1916 Wiliam Joseph "Dard" Hunter, having made his own paper by hand in his own paper mill, cut his own punches to create his own typeface, cast his own type, printed on his own hand press in Marlborough, New York, 250 copies of The Etching of Figures by William Aspenwall Bradley. Because Hunter was the first person in history to single-handedly create all the elements of the book from the paper to the type to the printing, this work has been called the world's first "one man book."

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Printing Exhibition in Aelst. Cinderella stamp from June 1911 for the exhibition (slight bit of mis-register on the yellow). The statue depicted is that of Dirk Martens (or Thierry Martens) (1446-1534) who set up his printing workshop in Aalst. He is Belgium's first printer.



The actual Bronze statue inaugurated on July 6, 1856.

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Medal commemorating the opening of his studio in Aalst by printer and publisher Dirk Martens in 1473.


Obv: Left-handed portrait with beret; around this names of his contemporaries: 'Columbus - Morus - Erasmus'.
Rev: Map of Europe with open book. Inscription: 'Dirk Martens Aalst 1473-1973'. On vz. and kz, the designer's name: 'Aglane'. Bronze, 80 mm, 328 grams.

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Cinderella stamp from Denmark from 1950. H. Meyers (Printing) of Copenhagen
Inverted W used as an M in logo

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BUGRA was the abbreviation for the 1914 International Exhibition for the Book Trade and Graphics which was held in Leipzig.

Advertising stamp of the Book Bindery



From the same era, two more advertising stamps

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I have posted LEGO® in the Gutenberg thread and @Dave Hughes has posted LEGO® in the Linotype Chat thread.
Two more

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Issued in 1993 - 100 Lire coin for the 100th anniversary of the Bank of Italy