Commercial – British Letterpress in 100 Objects

Curwen Press

The exceptional letterpress printing works that set the standard for jobbing printing.

Mechanical Quoin

Faced with simple frame in which to set type, printers have always needed a device to fill space and hold the whole forme in one piece for printing.

British Printing Society

A great connector of small printers in the UK and beyond since 1944.

Multigraph

A relief printing process, impressing inked letters on paper but not quite letterpress!

Dexion is an example of Slotted Angle, described by the BFMP as “a post-war development on the principle of the Meccano unit construction but in sizes appropriate to industrial application. It is of inestimable value to industry in general and has wide actual and potential application in the printing industry.”