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Because I happened to have Photoshop open, I was able to quickly find a date on the plate itself, and it looks like either 1980 or 1990: Maybe this was used to print collected editions? Or given its Christmas theme and size, maybe it was used
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<div dir="ltr">Because I happened to have Photoshop open, I was able to quickly find a date on the plate itself, and it looks like either 1980 or 1990:<div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_l2rxwx0l0" alt="image.png" width="385" height="419"><br></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_l2ry3vjd1" alt="image.png" width="271" height="76"><br></div><div><br></div><div>Maybe this was used to print collected editions? Or given its Christmas theme and size, maybe it was used to make special prints to be sold as artwork?</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck, and let us know when you solve the mystery!</div><div><br></div><div>Patrick Holt</div><div>Comics studies dilettante</div><div>Durham, NC</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 2:26 PM Glenn Fleishman via ComicsStudiesSociety <<a href="mailto:comicsstudiessociety@lists.osu.edu">comicsstudiessociety@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Hello, folks,<br>
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My historic specialty relating to comics is in the print production of
comics between an artist's drawings and the printed page. I've
encountered and collected a wide range of material spanning the metal
type/relief printing age, including engraved plates, flongs (paper-like
material used to make molds to cast printing plate), flat stereotypes
(plates cast from those molds), and even a newspaper stereotype of a
comics page (a hemispherical lead alloy plate weighing about 40 lbs).<br>
<br>
I'm eager to discuss this aspect if it's not off topic on this list,
which it doesn't seem to be, and share information with other people
also pursuing these threads. Most of the material I've obtained is
ephemeral production stuff, things that have no intrinsic value except
as an example. But I did purchase a sheet of weekday Doonesbury strips
from 1973 in flong format (before they were cut up for casting for
individual days) that includes strips that never ran or had to be
modified before running due to Ehrlichman's resignation.<br>
<br>
Most recently, I found a metal plate for sale on eBay that I can't
determine the purpose of. It's incised, but isn't suitable for intaglio
printing, which uses an incised process. Not being a relief surface, it
could be used to make plates. If anyone has insight, I'm all ears:
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ebay.com/itm/354035653118__;!!KGKeukY!2kg89oAoLyzBeVx24M5zXZo6jjGDzwJUBBa_wJnAnlZ2aTyltTbFi_-WeS4FrLiR7j51YtofJzC-CpXpV-kDguoPpqE$" target="_blank">https://www.ebay.com/itm/354035653118</a> The seller appears to have no
information about it.<br>
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Glenn Fleishman . Seattle . Washington . <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://glog.glennf.com__;!!KGKeukY!2kg89oAoLyzBeVx24M5zXZo6jjGDzwJUBBa_wJnAnlZ2aTyltTbFi_-WeS4FrLiR7j51YtofJzC-CpXpV-kD9i6RmL4$" target="_blank">https://glog.glennf.com</a> . @glennf <br>
Freelance writer, book author, editor, printer, and type historian<br>
Get my letterpress book on printing history: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://tinytypemuseum.com/__;!!KGKeukY!2kg89oAoLyzBeVx24M5zXZo6jjGDzwJUBBa_wJnAnlZ2aTyltTbFi_-WeS4FrLiR7j51YtofJzC-CpXpV-kDKUqxiU4$" target="_blank">https://tinytypemuseum.com/book</a><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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