City of Boston Print House Auction Feb. 24th
For those of you who care about old cool stuff and/or printing and/or run small presses:
The City of Boston is auctioning off all its old print house stuff on Feb. 24th.
There is a lot of stuff in this auction that is good for print geeks/small press folks/artist types. Some stuff that looked awesome:
Binding Machines
Stitching Machines
Huge, table-sized paper cutter
Various sizes of flat file (good for storing sheet music, large-format photos, artwork, blueprints)
Various types and sizes of metal file cabinet
Antique and modern letter-press printers
Light-up drafting tables in various sizes
Linotype machines
An old-school wooden telephone booth
Professional printers like the kind found in copy shops
A large-format camera of some kind
Air compressors
A shop vac
Various desks
IBM Model 25 Master electric clock (this thing is gorgeous, like some kind of industrial-age grandfather clock, all wood and square lines it looks like it's from the 20's or 30's)
Lead type (sadly, you can't buy just individual pieces of type; you have to take all of it, which looks like drawers and drawersfull)
The City of Boston is auctioning off all its old print house stuff on Feb. 24th.
There is a lot of stuff in this auction that is good for print geeks/small press folks/artist types. Some stuff that looked awesome:
Binding Machines
Stitching Machines
Huge, table-sized paper cutter
Various sizes of flat file (good for storing sheet music, large-format photos, artwork, blueprints)
Various types and sizes of metal file cabinet
Antique and modern letter-press printers
Light-up drafting tables in various sizes
Linotype machines
An old-school wooden telephone booth
Professional printers like the kind found in copy shops
A large-format camera of some kind
Air compressors
A shop vac
Various desks
IBM Model 25 Master electric clock (this thing is gorgeous, like some kind of industrial-age grandfather clock, all wood and square lines it looks like it's from the 20's or 30's)
Lead type (sadly, you can't buy just individual pieces of type; you have to take all of it, which looks like drawers and drawersfull)