Printing case and 50 letters

Former wooden printing case. 65x45. Matching 50 wooden stamp letters. Very good condition. The history of the printer's locker. What is commonly called a printing locker is actually a case - from the italian cassa which means crate. It is a drawer, usually made of wood, from a craft cabinet used in traditional typography. Stacked on top of each other, these shallow drawers were divided into small boxes, the cassetins, in which the lead or wooden characters necessary for the composition of a text were stored before it was printed. At the end of the 19th century, the appearance of the linotype helped modernize and speed up the composition task, thus relegating the old composing machines and storage lockers to oblivion. And on the stalls of the dealers for several years, to the delight of the hunters. What to do with a vintage printer's locker Punched, varnished, repainted, the printing locker, like many furniture crafts, becomes a beautiful decorative object. Placed and fixed vertically on a piece of furniture or against a wall, it is now used as a small showcase to display collections of miniatures of all kinds (perfumes, toys, statuettes, jewelry, etc.). Be careful to hang it on the wall with two screw pitons and a cord, locker side, and a screw hook or X hook, wall side. And if you don't feel like a collector's soul, you can simply display your printer drawer, empty, as a simple witness to the history of printing.

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