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Printing

I'm into tired iron and dead lead. The Heritage Museum in Libby Montana has many historical displays, including a working turn of the century printing press. Stop by for a visit on your next trip to Montana.

Check out the Liberty Press on this site (250k image).

The following image from the website of The Briar Press. It is the first ever press brought into the Montana Territory. This press is in the Montana State Museum in Helena, but not now on display.

Other presses to check out include:

  • 2 Iron Hand Presses

    To see how members of the Empire Type Foundry of Upstate New York get around, check out this link.



    Links to Check Out

  • The Reviewer is printed on the oldest working cylinder press in Canada, an 1898 hand-fed Two-Revolution Miehle Flatbed, direct from hot-metal and hand spiked letterpress composition in Moose Jaw by Larry Pion.
  • American Amateur Press Association Letterpress Museum Links Site and more.
  • The Briar Press
  • History of the American Point System
  • Don Black Linecasting Services
  • Tom Conlon's Letterpress & Hot Metal Homepage
  • The Print Shopper
  • Wood Type Finder
  • Treadles for Antique Printing Presses
  • Type Foundry At The Sign of the Happy Greyhound
  • Letterpress Composition Roller Manufacturer
  • Early Masters of type design
  • American Typecasting Fellowship
  • Logo of the American Typecasting Fellowship
  • Bosshard's Printing Primer
  • Letterpress Discussion/Support Group
  • Fold a paper Pressman's Hat
  • Everything worth knowing about Type Case Lays, a work in progress from The Alembic Press
  • The Original Letterpress Resource Handbook from The Briar Press


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