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Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Pick these up at a flee market type store up here. Local printing company went under and must have sold some of the holdings off.
Looks to me made of brass and is quite old, I'll have to research the name on the back of it.
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Would a rubberized imprint of this have been made to print on paper...Wax mold then rubberized mold?
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  • melvin289melvin289 Posts: 3,019 ✭
    Very nice. Good thing to have if you should ever want to print the Great Seal of North Dakota. Or you could imprint it onto the top of a cake for State functions. Just joking about that, really I like it and since you list your residence as North Dakota I am sure you were glade to come by it too.


    Edited to add: How big is this thing?


    Ron
    Collect for the love of the hobby, the beauty of the coins, and enjoy the ride.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Neat pickup... those old printing plates are rare anymore. Not sure what happened to all of that material (mostly lead) when newspapers went to modern printing techniques. Likely sold for scrap. Cheers, RickO
  • edix2001edix2001 Posts: 3,388 ✭
    The brass seal would be termed a "cut", which is a relief printing piece of "art" to be set with type.
    The engraved plate is likely magnesium and could be used for a mold to make a rubber "flexography" cylinder plate.

    Typesetting letters are made from lead, tin and antimony. Surplus fonts were likely melted into "pigs" and sold.
    member, Greater Houston Coin Club - Edwin's Coin Cabinet
  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,618 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What is PREMIUM ILST? Just curious. I thought maybe they mispelled LIST, but who knows.
    Jim

    When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest....Abraham Lincoln

    Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.....Mark Twain
  • edix2001edix2001 Posts: 3,388 ✭
    That is LIST spelled backwards. The serif of the bottom part of the L only appears to be part of the following I. If it actually was as you imagined, it would be a backward printing L following the I.
    member, Greater Houston Coin Club - Edwin's Coin Cabinet
  • Jinx86Jinx86 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Both plates are 5 inch squares. The State Fair plate weighs nearly 3 pounds. Also the person I got these from said hes got a large box of smallers ones, I may pickup a few of the more interesting pieces. Thanks for the comments.
    Jason

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