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"Super Soap, 1 pound tub"
$8.90
SS1
We were first introduced to Super Soap at the ATF gathering at M&H Type in San Francisco in 1998. Our sample sat unopened for a couple of years, then one day we really needed to clean our hands from a nasty washup of a press when the usually present gloves disappeared. Super Soap was astonishing, did a superb job quickly, and became a favorite hand cleaner around the shop. We now sell it in the one pound container listed here. A friend who is a metal plater and gold plates the annual Grammy awards among other things has found Super Soap to be his best all-around hand cleaner, and he gets really dirty in his work. Now, in late 2025, the owner of Super Soap, now in his 80s, has closed the business but he still some unpackaged material. It is in bulk containers and we repackage it in some left over one pound packages.
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"Hamilton Wood Type--A History in Headlines"
$20.00
BO69
Moran, Bill, Robert Style, Dennis Ichiyama, and Richard Zauft, St Paul, MS Blinc Publishing 2004 8vo. stiff paper wrappers iv, 60 pages Hamilton began producing type in 1880 and within 20 years became the largest provider in the United States. The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns, Hamilton's collection is one of the premier wood type collections in the world. In honor of the Museum's fifth anniversary, Blinc Publishing was commissioned to produce a 65 page book outlining the history of the Hamilton Wood Type Company, the importance of wood type to the growth of printing world-wide, and the role the Museum plays in the education of today's design professionals. The book includes a foreword by Jim Sherraden and five chapters on the history of Hamilton as a company and a museum. Well illustrated in full color. Cover is letterpress printed. Distributed for the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum.
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"Henry Compressible Gage Pins"
$10.00
GP225
The new Henry Compressible Gage pin is designed to be used with photopolymer plates mounted on bases that do not allow enough room for setting regular gauge pins in the area of the base. For small image areas or smaller sizes of paper, or for tight register to the edge of a plate, the Henry Gage will allow feeding of the paper stock on the platen without the possibility of crushing a gage pin or damaging an expensive base. These have a peel off adhesive backing for attaching the gage pin to the tympan. The adhesive will allow for repositioning of the gage pin to achieve register. There are 12 pins to a package. These are not designed to replace traditional gauge pins except where used in tight clearance situations with photopolymer plates and bases.
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"Challenge Hi-Speed Quoin, 10 1/2" new"
$66.50
QU500
These are new Quoins, never used, made by the Challenge Machinery Company, and have manufacture dates in the late 1960s on them. They have been in storage for the past almost 50 years, yet are in perfect working order. Many consider the Challenge quoins to be better made and easier to operate than the currently made ones by Bar-Plate. Challenge originated this product in 1932 and sold the line to Bar-Plate in the late 1990s. The 10 1/2 inch size was discontinued many years ago and is not currently made--it falls neatly in between the 9" and 12" sizes. We have 19 of these available. These operate with the currently made quoin keys from Bar-Plate as well as all older keys made by Challenge--that hasn't changed.
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Crescent, Vandercook CS-23
$41.00
Crescents for Vandercook oscillating ink drums, standard for SP, Universal, and #3 and #4 presses, and others. These are new, cast steel made by the lost wax process from the original Vandercook pattern and molds, stems are ground and polished. These need to be well lubricated both in the stem holder with grease and where the crescent rides in the worm. Vandercook recommended Vaseline for the worm, but a good grade of Lithium grease is a good substitute. Never run dry without any lubricant. The crescent holder in the ink drum has to be adjusted so that the crescent does not bottom out, or actually touch the bottom of the channel in the worm or it will cause binding, undue wear and premature breakage of the crescent.

Price is $41.00 each, or what we call the Paul Moxon special that is 3 crescents for $100.00 as he recommends having spare crescents on hand for emergencies. See the next item following this entry to order the Moxon special of 3 crescents rather than one crescent.