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I can't remember where this little card came from but it has intrigued me for years. It's printed...

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Uploaded on Jan 10, 2012

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A seasonal Cinderella to wish a Merry Christmas to all our readers. Printed from Adana metal stock block, 10pt type and tiny linocuts on an Adana 8-5.

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Uploaded on Dec 24, 2011

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A repeat pattern made out of the design on blairdashpb's old fabric printing block. Do you think it would...

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Uploaded on Dec 21, 2011  |  Map

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As noted before, Stephenson Blake's curved plastic quoins are a way of setting a block of text or picture...

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Uploaded on Dec 12, 2011

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I bought some envelopes, and on the back of the plastic wrapper there was a plain white sticker obscuring...

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Uploaded on Dec 10, 2011

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Remember the days before DTP? This book of cut-out letters on gummed paper was printed by Letterkit of...

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Uploaded on Nov 30, 2011  |  Map

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Remember the days before DTP? This book of cut-out letters on gummed paper was printed by Letterkit of...

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Uploaded on Nov 30, 2011  |  Map

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Two old chemist's labels from paper packets of French chalk. These were acquired with a collection of...

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Uploaded on Nov 28, 2011

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The other day I absent-mindedly tried to rinse a brush full of printing ink and white spirit in a jam jar...

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Uploaded on Nov 15, 2011

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And here it is in Oxford, all set up just before opening time, ready for the fairgoing public. Looking at...

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Uploaded on Nov 7, 2011  |  Map

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A dummy run assembling my display for the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair next weekend, 5/6 November. If...

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Uploaded on Oct 29, 2011

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For the most part I am not a proper philatelist, just a hoarder of pretty stickers. However I am...

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Uploaded on Oct 23, 2011  |  Map

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This is essentially the same book, as published in 1937, 1948, 1963 and 1973, all printed by Benham. Apart...

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Uploaded on Oct 19, 2011

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For the pinmarks group. This arrived in a Jiffy bag this morning, all the way from Western Australia....

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Uploaded on Oct 1, 2011  |  Map

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The triple screw motor yacht 'Mansa Kila Ba' was made at Forrestt's shipyard here in Wivenhoe in autumn...

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Uploaded on Sep 27, 2011  |  Map

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Ingermanland is the area around St Petersburg, with historic connections to Finland. The northern part was...

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Uploaded on Sep 22, 2011  |  Map

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Collecting stamps is so old fashioned, for a fresh challenge why not try hypophilately? Sometimes what you...

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Uploaded on Sep 18, 2011

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The first postage stamp of Latvia, number one in the Gibbons catalogue, was issued in December 1918 after...

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Uploaded on Sep 16, 2011  |  Map

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