Heavy duty etching press with wonderful gearing and 30″ solid steel bed 48″ long (76cm x 122cm). It comes with a starwheel which can be used instead of the handle. Believed to have come from the Bank of England in-house printing department.
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Giles and Patrick installing a Victoria art platen in Staffordshire.
Recently, we have made cast-iron rails, rounces with handles, bearings and all sorts of parts for Albions. This photo is of Guy welding up a bracket for one of the five Albions in our works at the moment.
Letterpress Today Number 3 from February 2024 is now out, including articles: Whittington Press; Maurice Edwards; Boxes of Keepsakes; The Day I Met John Ryder; Sissinghurst; The British Printing Society; Marthe Armitage; The Woodbury Press; Presses to Korea; Moving to New Premises; Hot Bed Press.