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Antique Oak Letterpress Printers Cabinet
Located in London, GB
Lovely old oak typesetters cabinet, chest of drawers.
Constructed, circa 1900. Cleaned and re-waxed.
Free U.K delivery. Overseas shipping available enquire for quotes.
Category
Early 1900s English Industrial Antique Letterpress
Materials
Steel
Antique Letterpress Cabinet Drawer c.1920
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
An antique typeset drawer used to house letters from a printer's letterpress cabinet with
Category
Early 20th Century Industrial Antique Letterpress
Materials
Metal
Original Wood Carved Carnival Sideshow Letterpress Wood Cuts
Located in Santa Monica, CA
in the printing process to make a four color poster. Not many letterpress survived as most were
Category
Early 20th Century American Antique Letterpress
Materials
Wood
Vintage decorative large collection letterpress wood block letters, ca. 1900
Located in Meulebeke, BE
Belgium / 1900 / letterpress wood block letters / wood / Art Deco / Industial / Rustic / Vintage
Category
Early 20th Century Belgian Industrial Antique Letterpress
Materials
Wood
Antique Industrial French Printers Letterpress Drawers / Cabinet, Early 20thC
Located in Nijmegen, NL
These printer drawers were made in the early 20th century in France from pine and beech with stunning original cast iron cup handles. Most of the drawers have dividers. The interior ...
Category
Early 20th Century French Industrial Antique Letterpress
Materials
Pine
American Made Cast Iron
Steel Industrial Stationary Printers Letterpress Table
Located in Oakville, CT
Original American made cast iron and steel industrial stationary printers letterpress table. This
Category
Late 19th Century American Industrial Antique Letterpress
Materials
Steel, Iron
1920s Printers Cabinet / Drawer Unit with Complete Original Letterpress Typogra
Located in Hook, Hampshire
1920s printers cabinet / drawer unit with complete original letterpress typography
1920s vintage
Category
1920s French Antique Letterpress
Materials
Pine
19th Century Curtis
Mitchell Cast Iron Printing Press Letterpress Boston MA
Located in Milford, NH
This is a great example of a 19th century Curtis & Mitchell Cast Iron Printing Press or Letterpress
Category
19th Century American Antique Letterpress
Materials
Iron
Authentic Vintage Industrial Cast Iron and Steel Letterpress Table/ Rolling Cart
Located in Oakville, CT
Original American made cast iron and steel industrial printers' letterpress table / cart. This
Category
Early 20th Century American Industrial Antique Letterpress
Materials
Steel, Iron
Hen with the Golden Eggs – Félix Bracquemond Etching on Japan Paper, c.1880
Located in Langweer, NL
character, particularly in animal subjects.
This impression is printed without the title or any letterpress
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 163 (Man Leaping)
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Inscribed with Muybridge's Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 700 (Bison Galloping), 1887
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Inscribed with Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date, stamped with
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Animal Locomotion: Plate 760 (Cockatoo in Flight), 1887
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Inscribed with Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date
Stamped with
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Waiting in the Forest—Cheyenne
By Edward Curtis
Located in New York, NY
"Waiting in the Forest—Cheyenne," 1910
Printed title, date, plate number, and letterpress credit
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photogravure
1920 Hamilton Mfg. Co. Oak Printers Typeset Cabinet
Located in Surrey, BC
flat drawers for storing lead type for letterpress printing. This circa 1920, rare double-bank cabinet
Category
1920s American Arts and Crafts Antique Letterpress
Materials
Brass
Chemist Shop Advertising Posters
Located in London, GB
Original woodblock, letterpress printed posters. Published circa 1880 for G. Baldwin & Co, Walworth
Category
19th Century British Victorian Antique Letterpress
Basilius Besler Botanical Hand-Colored Engraving of Poppies
By Basilius Besler
Located in Montreal, QC
engravings, and later hand-colored. Printed on laid paper, with letterpress text on verso; sight size 19"; x
Category
1610s German Baroque Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 699 (Bison Walking), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date, stamped with Museum of Edinburgh 'Science and Art
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 701 (Gnu Walking) - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's 'Science and Art
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 743 (Llama Galloping), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 696 (Eland Walking), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's 'Science and Art
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 294 (Man Playing Tennis), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 301 (Nude Man Kicking Ball) - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 634 (Man Riding Galloping Horse), 1887 - Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 697 (Antelope Trotting), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh 'Science
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 573 (Man Pulling Horse By Reins), 1887 - Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 370 (Nude Man Planing Wood), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 748 (Baboon Walking on Four Legs), 1887 - Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 582 (Nude Man Riding Horse), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 168 (Two Boys Performing A Leap Frog), 1887
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's 'Science and Art
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 355 (Man Pacing With Rifle), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Palte 29 (Nude Man Carrying Two Pails), 1887 - Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 735 (Two Elephants Walking), 1887 - Eadweard Muybridge
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Muybridge's Letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date.
Stamped with Museum of Edinburgh's
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
1920 Cast Iron Industrial Turtle Table
Located in Surrey, BC
contemporary setting.
This is a letterpress printing "turtle" used for the movement of smaller made up forms
Category
1920s American Industrial Antique Letterpress
Materials
Iron
Authentic Vintage Industrial
Turtle
Table / Rolling Cart on Double Casters
Located in Oakville, CT
Original American made cast iron and steel Industrial printers' letterpress table / Cart. This
Category
Late 19th Century American Industrial Antique Letterpress
Materials
Steel, Iron
Circa 1833 Hanging a cat on a Monday for Killing a Mouse on a Sunday Woodcut
Located in Lowestoft, GB
commentators standing around. Woodcut and letterpress. Imprimatur trimmed from this print. Frame 43 cm x 27 cm
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Letterpress
Materials
Glass, Pine, Paper
Birch Forest by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk Gustav Klimts landscape nature collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
signet, which was designed by Klimt and struck below the image using a technique similar to letterpress
Category
Early 1900s Vienna Secession Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
Le Soldado (Soldier) from Días de Ira (Days of Wrath) — Anti-Fascist Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Helios Gomez, 'Le Soldado (Soldier)', letterpress, 1929-1930. Signed in the matrix, lower left and
Category
1920s Modern Antique Letterpress
Materials
Black and White
La Ley de Fugas (Shot for Fleeing from the Law) — Anti-Fascist Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Helios Gomez, 'La Ley de Fugas (Shot for Fleeing from the Law)', letterpress, 1929-1930. Signed in
Category
1920s Modern Antique Letterpress
Materials
Black and White
Alphonse Mucha
s Le Pater: "Lead Us Not Into Temptation" 1899 lithograph
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
another level of luxury and dimension, the cover and title page incorporate a letterpress technique, and
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Antique Letterpress
Materials
Lithograph
Rare Heliograph of Government Offices in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1907
Located in Langweer, NL
pattern, unlike images printed using industrial methods such as offset, letterpress or rotogravure
Category
Early 1900s Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
Rare Images of Coolies Working in Tin Mines, Tambun and Taiping, Malaysia, 1907
Located in Langweer, NL
pattern, unlike images printed using industrial methods such as offset, letterpress or rotogravure
Category
Early 1900s Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
Rare Heliograph Views of Malacca in Colonial Times in Malaysia, Asia, 1907
Located in Langweer, NL
pattern, unlike images printed using Industrial methods such as offset, letterpress or rotogravure
Category
Early 1900s Dutch Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
Rare Heliogravures, the Town Hall
Station of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1907
Located in Langweer, NL
pattern, unlike images printed using industrial methods such as offset, letterpress or rotogravure
Category
Early 1900s Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
Three Rare Heliogravures of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1907
Located in Langweer, NL
printed using industrial methods such as offset, letterpress or rotogravure.
Héliogravure belongs to the
Category
Early 1900s Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
Long Haired Squirrel
By John James Audubon
Located in New Orleans, LA
letterpress from the later lithographic plate assign it the name Sciurus Longipilis, it is later identified as
Category
19th Century Naturalistic Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Mental Museum for the Rising Generation, by Jesse Torrey Jr., 1829
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
feature foxing and mild to moderate staining. Past ownership autograph and original letterpressed book
Category
1820s American Federal Antique Letterpress
Materials
Leather, Paper
Regnier, Bettanier, Morlon, French Color Lithographs With Period Gold Leaf Frame
Located in Prato, Tuscany
were then transferred to the Frères Becquet letterpress-lithography in Rue des Noyers in Paris for
Category
Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Letterpress
Materials
Wood, Paper
La Ley (The Law) from Días de Ira (Days of Wrath) — Anti-Fascist Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
', upper left corner. Letterpress relief print after the original drawing, with text in black ink on buff
Category
1920s Modern Antique Letterpress
Materials
Black and White
Avenir (To Come) form Días de Ira (Days of Wrath) — Anti-Fascist Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
corner. Letterpress relief print after the original drawing, with text in black ink on buff, wove paper
Category
1920s Modern Antique Letterpress
Materials
Black and White
Los Presidios (The Prisons) from Días de Ira — Anti-Fascist Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
numbered '13', upper left sheet corner. Letterpress relief print after the original drawing, with text in
Category
1920s Modern Antique Letterpress
Materials
Black and White
Old Heliogravures of Port Swettenham
Sultan Palace, Klang, Malaysia, 1907
Located in Langweer, NL
printed using industrial methods such as offset, letterpress or rotogravure.
Héliogravure belongs to the
Category
Early 1900s Antique Letterpress
Materials
Paper
The famous Elzevier Dutch States Bible, finely coloured and highlighted
By Theodorus Danckerts
Located in ZWIJNDRECHT, NL
. Large folio (43 x 28 cm). With an engraved title-page, 3 letterpress title-pages (the first in red and
Category
1660s Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique Letterpress
Materials
Gold
Antique Printer
s Letterpress Flatfile 80 Drawer Walnut Collector
s Cabinet 1890
Located in Portland, OR
A late 19th century walnut printer's cabinet, circa 1890.
The cabinet of rare and unusual size, having a stepped crown to the top and standing on a plinth base, the cabinet having t...
Category
Late 19th Century American Industrial Antique Letterpress
Materials
Walnut
Animal Locomotion: Plate 293 (Nude Man Playing Cricket), 1887
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Inscribed with Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date, stamped with
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Materials
Photographic Paper
Animal Locomotion: Plate 723 (Lioness Walking), 1887
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Inscribed with Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date, stamped with
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
Animal Locomotion: Plate 692 (Stag Running), 1887
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in London, GB
Inscribed with Muybridge's letterpress credit, series title, plate number and date, stamped with
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Letterpress
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Find many varieties of an authentic antique letterpress available at 1stDibs. An antique letterpress — often made from wood, metal and iron — can elevate any home. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer antique letterpress, there are earlier versions available from the 19th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. Each antique letterpress bearing Industrial or Victorian hallmarks is very popular. A well-made antique letterpress has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Alphonse Mucha are consistently popular.
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