free to a good home. mine.
On New Year’s Day, I was online when I stumbled onto a listing for letterpress type… free to a good home. Free? I’ll take it! I’ll give it a good home! Promise.
My current letterpress type collection was modest, at best, and I actually was in the market for more clunky obsolete letterpress stuff. The problem was that the free type was way over there, and I was way over here. So now what?
Luckily, my SIL, Angie, is a Bay Area photographer and was already planning a trip into the city. I asked if she could do me the hugest favor of picking up the case full of lead type and a couple emails and a few days later, I became the proud new owner of 18pt Cooper, 24pt Cooper, 36pt Gothic, and a vintage type case (sight unseen, up to this point). Yahoo! BTW, Amanda G., thank you so much!
I couldn’t wait to see what the freebies looked like. The suspense was killing me, so Angie was kind enough to take a few photos. Eventually these heavy lo-tech lo-fi blocks of coolness will make their journey to Southern California, (via those handy USPS flatrate boxes), but until then, I’ll just stare at these photos all day.
Photos: Angelica Realce
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