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Tue, Aug 10, 10 at 0:04
| Found this at a yard sale a few days ago and had to have it. It's a litho stone or some kind of stamp for the 1924 Lon Chaney film 'He who gets slapped'. Maybe for printing lobby cards? It's about 6'x8' and weighs 20+ lbs. Try as I might, I can't find another one like it or even similar to it online. I am hoping that someone here might know a little more about it. Thanks!
Not sure if the pic will show up here so if not, here's a link. [IMG]http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q200/podunktx/stone.jpg[/IMG] |
Here is a link that might be useful: Litho stone
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| It's not a Lithograph stone...but perhaps one for some other printing method... What's it made of? Is it stone? Lithograph is done on the principal that oil and water don't mix, this is a srone with an image cut in...like a wood cut perhaps... It's neat!! |
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- Posted by antiquesilver (My Page) on Tue, Aug 10, 10 at 11:45
| What a great find! |
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- Posted by sombreuil_mongrel (My Page) on Tue, Aug 10, 10 at 17:53
| Copper plate. maybe. That was the typical method of offset printing in the old days. They'd engrave a copper plate mounted to a wood backer, so it was the same thickness as the rest of the type, and it would get blocked into the page of newspaper type and printed off. I have a couple of these, much smaller, though. Litho stones were used, re-ground, and used again until they were too thin to be ground down again. They could be nearly any thickness since they were used by themselves, not in a rack of type. Casey |
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- Posted by notitfortat (My Page) on Wed, Aug 11, 10 at 0:09
| Thanks everyone! I'm not sure what it's made of. That is part of what I'm dying to know. It has a couple of chips in it where it looks sort of shiny and metallic. It's not magnetic. I don't know if these pictures might help.
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