City of Boston Print House Auction Feb. 24th

[eredien]

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)

Comments

[sovay]

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)

I understand why they might not sell type by the character, but I'm still sorry.

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

I once ran across an old paper cutter in a used-stuff shop in Pennsylvania. I was sorely tempted by it, because it was pretty cheap (less than $200, I think), but it must have weighed about 400 pounds, and there was no way I would have been able to move it.