A 19thC Alphabet Tray of Wooden Letterpress Printing Blocks c.1895 sub-Mirrors & Lighting Lamb of Manchester and Collinson

Lamb of Manchester and Collinson and Lock

their characters frozen in time and still shining through

—Edgar Allan Poe

modelled as an unkempt youth dressed in period attire to include jacket

A 19thC Alphabet Tray of Wooden Letterpress Printing Blocks c.1895 sub-Mirrors & Lighting Lamb of Manchester and CollinsonOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1895Width: 38Height: 15Depth: 1. 5 (the tray)Example Letter Height: 3. 75 for PThe collection of approximately one hundred and twenty three letterpress printing blocks, presented in their original wooden stained tray from the print house, the font being an elongated, sans serif type font in mahogany or similar wood and to include the ampersand and other punctuation marks, apparently