Trade cards, Cigarette cards, Labels, etc.

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Lithography, Cover for the album L'Estampe originale (album I) (La lithographie, couverture pour la première année de L'Estampe originale) 1893, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 - 1901)

Lithograph in six colours on laid paper, 58.5 cm x 82.9 cm

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Occupational Trade Cards by Gies & Co.

Each card in the set shows a man engaged in his occupation, with an object symbolic of that occupation in an upper corner. Number 12 was 'Printer'

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Spar Lucifers matchbox cover from 1965

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Geschichte des Buchgewerbes quartet game published by Verlag für Lehrmittel Pößneck, manufatured by Altenburger Spielkartenfabrik, c.1989. The illustrations convey information about the invention of the art of printing, the original graphic arts, typesetting, reproduction techniques, printing processes (letterpress, flat printing, gravure) and bookbinding. The card backs are decorated with pink fleurons (also known as printer's flowers). 32 cards + 4 information cards in box.






The backs on the English version carry an advert for MAN-Roland

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The chap on the note is Hristo Gruev Danov (27 August 1828 - 11 December 1911), a Bulgarian enlightener, teacher and book publisher of the Bulgarian National Revival who is regarded as the father of organized book publishing in the Bulgarian lands and hailed as the "Bulgarian Gutenberg".

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The chap on the note is Guðbrandur Þorláksson, bishop of Hólar from 8 April 1571 until his death. He was the longest-serving bishop in Iceland and is known for printing the Guðbrandsbiblía, first complete Icelandic translation of the Bible.

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The chap on this note is Antonio Amador José de Nariño y Álvarez del Casal (1765 – 1824. He was a Colombian ideological precursor of the independence movement in New Granada (present day Colombia). In 1794, Nariño procured a copy of the "Declaration of the Rights of Man", which was being distributed by the French Assembly. He translated it from its original French into Spanish and printed several copies from his own private press. A copy of the declaration can be seen on the left of the front and a small wooden handpress can be seen bottom right of the reverse

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In the 1970s and 1980s, a New Zealander named Bruce Grenville began a hoax, claiming to have founded the Sultanate of Occussi-Ambeno. He invented a history for the Sultinate and produced many cinderella stamps for his creation.
On 21st September, 1989 he issued Great Print Inventors.

Ottmar Mergenthaler appears on the 2 cent and 2 dollar stamps
The other two stamps in this set feature Chester Carlson, best known for having invented the process of electrophotography, which produced a dry copy rather than a wet copy, as was produced by the mimeograph process. Carlson's process was subsequently renamed xerography, a term that literally means "dry writing."

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A First Day Cover from the The British Postal Museum & Archive issued for Victorian Innovation. The cachet depicts a Folding Machine made by Thomas De La Rue & Company and was exhibited at The Great Exhibition of 1851.

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Cinderella stamp showing a Victoria platen      (date unknown)



Two images of the press

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Advertising stamp for the International Printing Machinery and Allied Trades Exhibition 1963
Forerunner of IPEX

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Advertising stamp for the 7th International Printing Exhibition 1925

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Postcard from the 1906 exhibition
International Printing, Stationery & Allied Trades Exhibition, Agricultural Hall 1906

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In the autumn of 1914 in Barcelona, Catalonia due to the First World War there's not much work for Catalan printing works.

In a time without unemployment pay that meant misery for their workers and their families. So, some artists decided to draw some cinderellas, print them at a very good printer (Oliva de Vilanova, Barcelona) and collect some money to help.

Hence the text "Socors, per a la vaga forçosa" (help for the unvoluntary strike).

The cinderellas have a face value of 5 cents.


The one of interest is the print machine on the second line of stamps

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The Book of Trades was first published in Frankfurt in 1568 as the result of cooperation between the poet and cobbler Hans Sachs, the artist Jost Amman and one of their most influential contemporary German publishers, Sigmund Feyerabend. The book contains 114 texts, each illustrated with a woodcut, that describe the spiritual and secular hierarchy of the time as well as numerous trades and professions.

The Bookbinder

Notice the tools and equipment: going clockwise from top:

rolls- for tooling leather                       spools of thread                 tying-up boards           cabinet makers axe for shaping boards
rasps         finished book with clasps               plough-trimming text block             bow-saw              plane-shaping boards
draw knife                  text block hammer-reduce swell                    lying presses                               unsewn quires
sewing frame                             gimlet-for lacing holes in cover boards



Ich bind allerley Bücher ein/
Geistlich und Weltlich/groß und klein/
In Perment oder Bretter nur
Und beschlags mit guter Clausur
Und Spangen/und Stempff sie zur zier/
Ich sie auch im anfang planier/
Etlich vergüld ich auff dem Schnitt/
Da verdien ich viel geldes mit.

I bind all sorts of books /
Religious and worldly / large and small /
In parchment or plain boards
And fit it with a good covering/
And clasps / and tool it with decorations /
I even flatten them at the beginning /
And many I gild on the edges /
With which I earn much money.