Baltimore
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Dang, I wish you'd posted that Litho block here, I'd have Id'ed it for you in a second! I used to spend a lot of time priting and with other printers, I never did litho but I learned a lot about it. Here's a fun fact, there was only one mine in the entire world that produced the correct limestone for those blocks, and sometime in the somewhat recent past it ran out, meaning that however many printing blocks exist now is the most that there will ever be, and that number will keep getting smaller as they get broken, lost, etc. Where I used to print had all kinds of weird broken shards that they still used because they had no choice. It doesn't really matter because most litho printing is done with metal plates now, but its still interesting to think about. Great finds!