Rediscovery of various old print/type blocks/stamps!

[Nancy Bell Scott]

Thought I'd lost these after closing my antiques shop:Variety!

Most of these never got used in my other collage work, or the few times they did, they didn't fit somehow.  But I loved them and hung onto them after closing the shop, then promptly lost them in storage and feared I'd given them away.

Although not much of a stamper, I am dying to use these old things in mail-art, and have done it a little bit in the past week, since re-finding them.  I even dream of using them for people's entire names and addresses on envelopes.  Is that nuts?

In the top photo, you can see a few I-think-lead printer's blocks/stamps, used for various companies in Holland, Michigan, several decades ago.  (You can also see the mouthpiece for false teeth that belonged to the grandfather of my ex-best-friend, but never mind.)  Here are some as stamped out in my sketchbook the other night:

All the others, both wood and rubber, came from various auctions here in Maine -- a nice variety in both size and font of alphabet letters and numbers.  I always bid on that stuff because I loved it, never knowing what I'd actually do with it.

The challenge now will be not to overdo it, which is kind of a foreign concept in this house.  Send help if you can.

 

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

To help you declutter...you may send some wood block letters to Greece (hint, hint ;-)

OR, you have great material for asemic writings, Nancy!! go, girl!

[Lesley Magwood Fraser]

What treasures! Stamping their feet to be used in Mail Art!