Description

This wood type was designed after the hand iron Ullmer & Son Columbian press, cast in London by Stepherson Blake company in 1854, press that is in the heritage collection of the MATS museum after it was purchased in Malta from the Beck family of printers.

If you buy this product, you not only enjoy a high-quality authentic wood type, but also help to keep running the only private working printing museum in Romania. Thank you!

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Letterpress Columbian Press wood type printing block – 16/18 line (67,5/76 mm)

SIZE/DIMENSION/WEIGHT
Relief depth of 1.8 mm and total block depth is standard size of 0.918″ (Anglo – American type height). Please leave a message upon purchase, if you want different type height (German, Dutch, Danish, Italian, etc)

MATERIALS UTILIZED
French polished, end-grain beech wood.

PRODUCTION METHOD
New, uninked, unused printing blocks cut from dry, treated beech wood on a cnc milling machine, each item is hand finished.

CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS
Additional characters or other custom typefaces, ornaments, borders, pattern, etc, of different sizes or relief depths may be machined upon special order.

PAYMENTS METHOD
Paypal

SHIPPING
The shipping consist of regular economy postal service delivery and it is (at least) somewhere between 5 to 10 days for E.U. and 10-14 days for the United States.

THIS PRODUCT IS MADE TO ORDER! Manufacture time is between 1-2 weeks.

Please contact us for further details or custom orders!