Wallflowers Press gets a Hoe
Wallflowers Press is getting close to being in its new studio. We have been looking for an iron handpress to serve as the centerpiece for the studio. We recently came across a R. Hoe & Co. Washington press with a platen that is 25" x 38".
A three-day field trip to Portland, Maine and it was in Newark, Delaware. Here are two photos from the move.
Scott Wilson, former owner of the press, helped Ray and Jill put it on a palette and load it on the truck (below)
Wallflowers Press gets a Hoe
On the way we stopped in Andover, MA to take in the Museum of Printing. Here are a few photos from the visit.
Jill Cypher with Gardner J. LePoer, our tour guide and the Museum's Executive Director. The museum is essentially Gardner's personal collection and it is fabulous from top to bottom.
A beautiful acorn press.
A drum cylinder newspaper press.
Gardner and a Hoe he had just gotten for the museum that was still on its palette. It was nice to see how they had done it so we could go to school on the process.
This was a pretty serious 8' high cabinet of cuts and wood type. How would it look to have about 8 of those across a wall?
Not sure exactly what this is but it looked like a precursor to the Linotype.
This was from a wonderful collection the museum had just received. Mr. Frey had a letterpress shop and had collected a gazillion pieces of type ephemera, catalogs, samples, and student work from his teaching days.
Strangely, this was kind of Ray's highlight of the visit from the Frey collection. It was a letter to the President of the United States inviting him to visit their school. Now that is a reason to letterpress something.
