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The Fossils
At Thursday’s Fossil luncheon, toastmastered by Tom Whitbread, Sec’y-Treas. Ruby Quillman read greetings from Prexy Sherman Cole; Vic Moitoret and Elaine Peck urged NAPA financial support for Ajay Thoughts; Helen Monson recited an original poem and harmony prevailed. Awards were won by ten Fossils and one french-fried potato drawn blindly from a box by Joe Curran. New Fossil Ginny Arnold, from France, asked for two application blanks to recruit new french-fries – er, Fossils. The meal was delicious! – Tom Whitbread
Our beautiful convention programs were created by Laurence Hines from Sedona, Arizona.
“He’s a very adorable gentleman.” This quote comes not from Vic(tor A., Cap’t Ret.) Moitoret, but the Los Angeles Business Journal, speaking of our Glenn Engebretsen, who by his own admission keeps a messy shop. Ah, but, says he, the messier the shop, the better the printer. We’ve seen his work for the NAPA. Amen.
Gutenberg’s Marvels Move to Museums
(Excerpts taken from articles in the September and October 1983 issues of Graphic Arts Monthly.)
As the printing industry’s future has sped quickly into computer graphics, electronics and lasers, a group of printers in tune with their history have been collecting antique printing equipment. Some have established private collections; others have donated their equipment to museums in restored historical villages, university print museums, or regional museums.
Here are examples of printing press collections that are noted for their equipment, location, or history.
The Ernest A. Linder Collection of Antique Printing Machinery. Ernest Linder claims to own the largest private collection of printing equipment in the country. Eighty significant pieces include the first web offset press in the world, a Stanhope and a Columbian press, a one-cylinder flatbed press that came around the Horn in the 1860s, and a Model 1 Linotype in full working order. The Museum is located at 612 E. 12th St., Los Angeles, CA 90015, is open 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. Wed. through Fri. and other hours by appointment. (213) 747-4341 or (213) 247-7821.
Sid White Collection. This is an east coast rival to the Linder collection. It includes an 1830 Hoe four-page cylinder press for newspapers and a Samuel Rust press made between 1819 and 1820. Many of the presses have been researched and labeled with the make, model, production number and other informational notes. Visitors welcomed by appointment only. Museum is located at 150 Broadway, Elizabeth, NJ 07206. (201) 351-6906.
Jeff Craemer Collection. This is the largest privately owned hand press collection in the U.S. Known as the Mt. Tam Press Printing Museum in San Rafael, north of San Francisco, it includes 26 presses. They range from a 4,300 lb. Columbian Press made in London in 1890 to a 50 lb. toy press. It features an extremely rare California Reliable 10 x 15 platen press manufactured in the 1880s by Palmer and Rey of San Francisco. Museum is open to the public by appointment only. Contact Jeff Craemer at (415) 454-9763.
Graphic Arts Museum of Maryland. This Baltimore exhibit includes an 1837 Albion press which has been restored to good working order and a Frammes press from Allentown, PA. Money to operate this exhibit comes from flea market sales of printing memorabilia and auctions of printing items at various printing associations. Located in Woernle’s print shop, Brunographics, at 407 E. Saratoga St., Baltimore, MD 21202, in late 1983 the museum was to move to a permanent site at 146 N. Gay St., near the Baltimore harbor.
At It Again
by Helen Campbell Monson (41 words)
Are you list’ning to the rumble
of discussion here today
When the active NAPA members
meet and while the time away
At another great convention
where thoughts clash and voices raise
In the once-a-year convening
of the doddering AJs?!
Napa’s conventions are marvelous fun, eh! Sure glad we made it down to San Diego for the 109. H.J., V.J., E.B. from north of the border, up Canada way.
Even a chauvinistic New Englander must admit that San Diego’s cerulean climate is as comfortable as Connecticut’s fall foliage is beautiful. – Harold Davids
Bill Gordon tells me I am an innovator, but when I’m faced with composing copy for such a prestigious rag as NAPA’s Scuttlebutt I come up with nothing but blankety blank blanks. – Ed Fielding