Items for Sale

Pay Pal is now a payment option.  It's new to us so it'll take time to learn the "ins and outs".
Presently we will do a Pay Pal Invoice for an item (or items).  As the system becomes more
familiar to us we'll expand with bells and whistles, buttons and carts.  John B.


Inks:             Van Son: a small supply of Van Son Rubber Base Ink is stocked in black, two whites 
                    and a variety of the popular colors.  Van Son inks are packaged in one lb. cans; cost 
                    $18.00 for black, more for colors.  For a wider variety of colors and a Starter Kit, contact
                    Box Car Press at:  www.boxcarpress.com                  
                    Ink in Tubes Starter Kit:  one 4.5+ oz. tube of Black, Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Violet,
                    Brown and Mixing White. $66.00 ($55.00 without the mixing white.)                                 
                        [Dave Robison, San Jose, CA presently packages 70 plus different ink items in
                    oil and rubber base, metallics and fluorescents.  For information on ordering individual 
                    colors, custom orders, or questions about mixing, email to  Ink@ORCHIDesign.com ]

Strip Material:  Leading: a good supply of 24" strips of  2 pt. and 6 pt.; some 12 pt., a small 
                    amount of 18 pt. in shorter lengths; and some 1 points. 
                       Thin material: 24" strips of 1/2 pt. copper, and 1 pt. brass and plastic.  [For those 
                    unfamiliar with the plastic, used for years in our commercial operations and quite 
                    functional.  Easily cut with scissors, doesn't break or fall apart and quickly recognized
                    from other leading on the stone.]
                                        
Icons:          Ornaments, borders, braces, leaders, fractions, "Sterling" dingbats.  There's even  
                   some two color icons and borders, and yes, lots of holly and red berries.  Sold by the 
                   ounce.  We supply the zip lock bags and the tweezers; you bring the good eyesight!
 
Plates/Cuts:  Hundreds and hundreds of 'em.  With every purchased shop more go out on the racks.
                    Tiny ones, big ones; ones for a design purpose, others are "collectible".  Lead cast, zinc,
                    copper, copper-clad lead, magnesium, a few wood and linoleum (no polymer yet!), and
                    some two-color units.

Books:        A variety of letterpress/type related books:
                        "The Printers Guide Book" -- Kelsey  $5.00
                        "Field Guide to North American Hand Presses" -- Robert Oldham  $17.00
                        "General Printing" -- Cleeton-Pitkin-Cornwall  -- Liber Apertus Press  $26.95
                        "Hamilton's Specimens of Wood Type Faces" -- Shooting Star Press  $42.00
                        "American Metal Type Faces of the Twentieth Century" -- MacGrew  $65.00
                        "American Wood Type - Rob Roy Kelly" -- Liber Apertus Press  $37.00
                        "Monotype Catalog & Specimen Book" -- Swamp Press  $12.00
                        New: "Ornadementia" -- Swamp Press  $32.00
                                 A 276 page reference book combining the ornaments, dingbats and hot 
                                 metal borders of Kinsley Foundry, Lanston Monotype, English Monotype, 
                                 Linotype, Ludlow and others.  The last section details Swamp Press' 
                                 extensive matrix inventory of ornaments, dingbats, borders available for 
                                 casting.
                        Swamp Press Bonus:  the "Monotype Catalog" and "Ornadementia"  -- $40.00

 
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