...in progress...
Some rather last minute monoprints for our exhibition in Llangollen next month - mixed media pieces incorporating relief printing, stencilling and lettering.
Since the exhibition is about land and language it seems important to incorporate some form of text: cue the John Bull printing set I acquired last year on eBay (my only purchase therefrom so far). My own fondly remembered childhood set has vanished somewhere: possibly donated to younger cousins, or possibly still in the attic somewhere. The eBay "set" turned out to be two - a basic upper case set and a very sophisticated, apparently unused, Printing Machine Mark 5 complete with original ink. It cost 35 shillings, which was a great deal of money pre-decimalisation; approximately a day's wage in the building trade, according to the National Archive currency converter http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency/
So, someone spent all that money on a toy for a child ..... who never used it. I'm using it. But with proper printing ink.
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So, someone spent all that money on a toy for a child ..... who never used it. I'm using it. But with proper printing ink.