Something to do with movie posters

[cheech]

I picked up about 1000 movie posters A few months ago for about a buck apiece as I was digging through one of the bins laying on the bottom there was these pieces there’s probably about 30 of these little cards and maybe 10 or 15 of these block pieces of wood does anybody know what they’re called or how they were used for movie posters

 

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[bdsawyer]

Printers blocks. Used for papers, posters, newspaper, etc. unique find especially if you find one that has a big following!

 

[cheech]

Printers blocks. Used for papers, posters, newspaper, etc. unique find especially if you find one that has a big following!

Does that go for the cardboard item to I found a printing block

 

[bdsawyer]

Does that go for the cardboard item to I found a printing block

Which one?

 

[Iggyks]

the cardboard piece was used to create an engraving aka printer's block.

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Printers blocks, nice finds!

 

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[goldenwonderbear]

In print shops and newspaper plants , in the 40'-60's , these were called "mats". i think one of them says Mat 203. You set them up and use them to make a block to put in a "form". That is what you make a page of news print in. Do this with a casting box that pours molten "pot metal". On Friday, "throw-in day", you strip the forms and put them back in the caster, melt them down, skim off the slag, pour them into "pigs" for the Linotype or go back to setting up more mats to pour..................hal