I would have done the same! Wife would have gave me 3rd degree but....
The unexamined life is not worth living....Socrates
Pain, is just weakness leaving the body....USMC
Fast is fine, but accuracy is FINAL!....Wyatt Earp
Great barter material and the price seemed right.
A vote for anyone other then the conservative candidates is a vote for the liberal candidates.
Thats cool! I've never seen new type metal of any kind. Good price too!
I have hundreds of pounds of it just like that.....still in original factory paper wrap. Called OLD NEW STOCK. But is is probably 60-80 years old like mine. The type I have came with the letter press I bought 40+ years ago. I still use the thing!
I will NEVER melt any of mine down! I have complete font sets of 30+ fonts in the big drawers. And bundles just like pictured.
Those are weird fonts/letters/symbols! Normally it is a complete alphabet/number/symbol set in one bundle.
Yeah this came from a print shop buy out. Guys told me they had gotten 50+ buckets of linotype. Said they still needed to sort thru it.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |