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Antique large number press9/18/2023 ![]() Marble and steel are preferred to ensure flatness and levelness of the surface when a form is prepared for the press. Later industrial models are precision steel. The table upon which the type is organized into one or multi-page forms is called the “imposing stone,” and often is made of marble. Large quantity of cuts (pictures, mounted plate or cast metal)Īfter basic composition, type must be assembled into galleys for first proof and then “imposed” pages and multiple-page forms in preparation for printing.Quantities of decorative and antique type.Hot Metal Composition: Hand composition Hand typeġ,700 cases of foundry type in 51 wooden and steel case stands, many with working tops Smelter – multiple pig mold, 8-pig, water cooled single pig molds. ![]() General support equipmentĪ well-equipped hot-metal composing room had a wide variety of specialized tools (in addition to a general machinery-shop for repairs). It requires specially cast foundry type that was notched for machine sorting (not unlike Linotype matrices). The Unitype foundry-type typesetter set foundry type (harder than the normal hot-metal composing machines could cast on the fly). Ludlows (2) - with 206 fonts of mats in 20-case racks We usually run it every Saturday at the Museum. A compositor assembled matrices for one line of headline or display by hand on a “Ludlow composing stick.” Ludlow type is cast type-high like all other type. The Ludlow was the main machine for hot metal headline composition. Intertype was a clone of the Linotype, made to interchange fonts and some parts, and manufactured by the Intertype Corporation. This was the second prototype for the Linotype (1872). ![]() This model was the last Linotype made in the U.S. The Linotype was adapted to remote setting using transmission of wire-service copy with the Teletypesetter paper tape keyboard and printer.Typographic errors required the resetting and recasting of the entire line, and sometimes adjacent lines if the spacing was changed too much by the correction. In contrast to the Monotype, it cast whole lines at once. The original hot-metal composing machine for newspaper operations was the Mergenthaler Linotype. The Museum has a Composition caster with 160 cases of mats and two keyboards. Once the page was “worked off,” the type could be melted to be cast anew, or it could be distributed into cases for hand composition or correcting of typographic errors matter set in the same face. It cast individual sorts character by character. The workhorse for machine typesetting of book work was the Lanston Monotype. Hot Metal Composition: Machine Composition Monotype Only in the 20th century were practical methods of machine setting applied. For much of the history of printing, composition was hand composition of hand-cast type. Traditional composition was based on hot metal, which includes hand composition of foundry type. Viewing for the sale will be on Saturday 20th May 9.00am-12 noon and Monday 22nd May 9. process of typesetting is also called composition. Particularly interesting examples include a mid-1930’s Zeh Zeca-Flex folding TLR camera with Compur-Rapid shutter and Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 1:3.5 f=7.5cm lens, a wide-angle Rolleiflex TLR camera with Carl Zeiss Distagon f4 55mm lens, hood and leather case and a Graflex Century Graphic 2¼'' x 3¼'' press camera, with red bellows, Rodenstock - Ysarex f4.5 105mm lens, Synchro-Compur-P shutter and Kalart Synchronised Range Finder.Īlso in the collection is a quantity of charming actual-size camera models, scratch-built mainly from wood, which would look superb on display in a shop or with a collection and the full range will be offered for sale in Eldreds auction of Antiques, Art, Clocks, Ceramics, Glass & Works of Art on Tuesday 23rd May, from 10.00am. The huge collection of literally 100’s of cameras, lenses and accessories consigned for sale by auction, spans the full date range of the production of commercial photographic technology from the 19th century onwards and comprises a vast assortment of quality examples, from the earliest mahogany and brass plate and bellows cameras to sub-miniature models, including two by Minox, often associated with espionage. A life through the lens - a huge collection of antique and vintage cameras, lenses and related items.Ī fascination for all things photographic and a career as a cameraman for a local tv station has led to the largest collection of antique and vintage cameras ever seen at Eldreds.
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