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Welcome to our antique printer's block site!

This site is dedicated to preserving images of early “American made” rare and antique letterpress printers blocks. Our mission is to maintain a web site that can act as a museum, educational tool, and a unique shopping experience.

We specialize in scarce and unique antique letterpress printers blocks and wood type blocks. With an emphasis on graphic cuts as opposed to wood type fonts and other. We are here to answer any questions you may have about our products or our services.

Photograph galleries will be maintained with unique antique graphic blocks. Whether you are here to just browse or in need a unique collectors piece, we welcome everyone.

We have printer's blocks for sale in all price ranges and have provided specific categories for browsing. You may use the search function within the Museum and Store to find items by keyword.

Approximate measurements are listed in both pica and inches. Items on the gallery pages will be added to the "Store" section and will be available for purchase. We reserve the right to display the images indefinitely. Please visit our History and Links pages for in-depth information and resources.

Due to our location just outside of Hershey Pennsylvaina and our luck to happen across a few vintage Hershey topic printer’s blocks. We have decided to also dedicate an entire page to this classic piece of Americana History. We have provided a brief history and also links to in-depth information on most Hershey attractions.

Store inventory includes antique wood type cuts, copper and zinc face blocks and foundry cast alloy printers type blocks. Our printers blocks are USA "type high" or approximately .918" tall.

All of our printers blocks are guaranteed to be authentic antique advertisement memorabilia used in the Letterpress printing industries throughout the 19th and early 20th century. We will have early American foundry cuts of all types in all categories, many identified as being manufactured by one of the important early American type foundries. We will always note if the specific block has a foundry identification and/or PIN Mark.

Within the store categories you may find all types of vintage letterpress printing blocks including:

Hand Carved Wood Engravings

Line Cuts

Stereotype

Electrotype

Halftone Blocks

Foundry Type Blocks

All of these block "types" may be found within any specific category.

Gutenberg, Faust (Fust), Schoeffer (Schoffer), the forefathers of Western Letterpress Printing. Although Guttenberg is spelled with two letter "T" on this antique printers block, Historical information shows the spelling with one letter "T".

Block manufactured by Barnhart Brothers and Spindler Foundry 1868 - 1929

Four Important Revolutions in Type Technology

1450 - 1480 = Gutenberg and the Impact of Printing

1870/95 - 1950/65 = Industrial Revolution - Steam, Line-Casting and Automated Punch Cutting

1950/60 - 1975/85 = Photocomposition, Intertype

1973/83 = Digital

The majority of our blocks would have been manufactured during the Industrial Revolution, some of our cuts will date back to the early 19th century.

Please also visit our Museum page. We host a large number of rare and hard-to-find cuts as well as one-of-a-kind hand-carved woodcuts. The hand-carved woodcuts are true Folk Art memorabilia at it's finest! Our History and Link pages contain a wealth of resources and helpful information.