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Subject: Identifying Photographed Equipment

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Jeff Zilles [jeffo]

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Date Posted: 02:08:47 11/08/02 Fri
In reply to: Jeff Dykehouse 's message, "Help in Identifying Subject of Photograph" on 14:10:00 11/02/02 Sat

Difficult to tell exactly what you have got without seeing the brute but the general description conjures up a vision of a 'furniture rack'. Letterpress printers will be familiar with its use but I feel that our correspondent is not an initiate, so a little explaination. The furniture was traditionally made of well seasoned timber, hence very stable, and was cut to precise length and width so that the 'stoneman' could select pieces of suitable size, like building blocks, to position his 'type' [the text] and 'cuts' or 'blocks' [the pictures or illustrations] and other assorted spacing in the 'chase' [an open centered steel frame. usually machined to fit a particular press] together with the 'quoins' [expanding mechanical wedges to lock the whole together immovably]. The thus finished result is then called a 'forme'. Later furniture has been made from phenolic resin plastics and from aluminium. On the other hand, not having seen the object, I could be completely wrong and not the first time! If you feel like sending the pic I would be interested to see it. Jeff Zilles jeffo@jeffoworld.com

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Photographed Equipment Identified	Jeff Zilles [jeffo]	22:05:49 11/10/02 Sun