What was this lead used for?

[pertnear]

I scored some lead today at an estate sale. 15 - 1 lb ingots & some strange looking molded strips. Some of the strips had a retangular hole down the middle & others had 3 round holes through them. Any ideas what these flat strips may be from?
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[45DUDE]

I have some linotype from the city news that looks kind of like that.

[Stewbaby]

Looks typical of what I’ve gotten in Monotype


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[samari46]

I have a pool and the hand held scraper/sucker has lead weights with the 3 holes in it for the screws to hold them in place. When they get old and have to get a new one, I take out the lead weights. Frank

[pertnear]

Is this stuff linotype in hardness?

[hunter74]

It's harder than lino. The longe stripes are spacers. Sometime it's foundry type hardness (9sn19sb) and sometime it's steel.

For simplicity I regard them as lino if that's what I have the most of, and take the extra sn and sb as an extra bonus.

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[dondiego]

I think that they are type spacers. Sometimes hard, sometimes not so hard.

[colchester]

Everything pictured is linotype spacers. The short pcs are saw cut from longer strips. Typically spacers contain a little less tin and antimony than linotype but xrf will give a definitive answer