Metal Printing Plate

[Pocopear]

Howdy all! I need some help identifying and dating this metal printing plate. I found it out in the woods today. Crazy place to find such a treasure! Anyway, it has the words Ad. 595 FALL FASHION BOOK PICTORIAL REVIEW PATTERNS Dress 1857 45 cents. It has some other words as well and there is an image of a very stylish woman. The plate is approximately 2x3”. Any help is appreciated. Thanks and be well. Poco.

 

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[A2coins]

Pretty cool find part of the fun is doing some research, Nice piece of History.

 

[A2coins]

Welcome to tnet also Tommy

 

[firemanphob]

Welcome from Indiana

 

[diggingthe1]

Those old plates are a great find. Sometimes you can find quite a few in one spot. Welcome from Colorado.

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

Those old plates are a great find. Sometimes you can find quite a few in one spot. Welcome from Colorado.

Have you found some discards?

 

[vpnavy]

1st - I noticed this was your very first post - so, Welcome Aboard Pocopear! You didn't list your state (or country) in your profile. So, you might consider jumping over to Sub-Forum: Select Your Area.... for information (i.e., clubs, hunts, finds, legends, maps, etc.) directly related to your state (or country).

2nd - I moved ya from GENERAL DISCUSSION over to WHAT IS IT? for more exposure.

 

[Pocopear]

I’m hoping to do some more searching in that area. It was a last minute find and I was already running late. The perpetual ‘just one more’. It gets me every time!

 

[Pocopear]

Thanks. I’m still trying to figure everything out. I haven’t used sites like this much.

 

[Pocopear]

Have you found some discards?

Don’t mean to ask a silly question, but what are discards?

 

[Pocopear]

1st - I noticed this was your very first post - so, Welcome Aboard Pocopear! You didn't list your state (or country) in your profile. So, you might consider jumping over to Sub-Forum: Select Your Area.... for information (i.e., clubs, hunts, finds, legends, maps, etc.) directly related to your state (or country).

2nd - I moved ya from GENERAL DISCUSSION over to WHAT IS IT? for more exposure.

Thanks for your help. I will check it out. Poco.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Welcome to Tnet from Toronto Pocopear!

This is a very interesting find, I just had to clean it up to get a better look at it.
Looks like it's made of lead so it may very well date to 1857.

My suggestion would be to have it professionally cleaned/restored, then consider having a print made from it and frame the plate and the print together.
I'd head back there and look for more, as this could be one of many that may have been dis-guarded there.

Dave

 

[invent4hir]

Howdy all! I need some help identifying and dating this metal printing plate. I found it out in the woods today. Crazy place to find such a treasure! Anyway, it has the words Ad. 595 FALL FASHION BOOK PICTORIAL REVIEW PATTERNS Dress 1857 45 cents. It has some other words as well and there is an image of a very stylish woman. The plate is approximately 2x3”. Any help is appreciated. Thanks and be well. Poco.

Poco, welcome to TNet. Agree with the others that it is a neat find - and to find one complete - is uncommon. Certainly some history there, finding it in the dirt is only part of the fun, figuring out what book it came from gives context.

 

[nhbenz]

This ad was in this 1923 newspaper, (see the upper left): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/53122763/

And I can find the text from it in other newspapers around the country in the fall of 1923, but without a good clear picture I can use...

 

[villagenut]

Great ID ben

 

[Anduril]

Would be very cool to find a local 1920's Minnesota area newspaper that ran this exact ad.
That way, it might even be the actual plate that did the printing!

(I assume the item was found in Minnesota, although PocoPear did not say.)

 

[diggingthe1]

Have you found some discards?

Hi Imaudigger, I have found quite a few cool ones over the years! I'll try to get them posted soon. Nice Id nhbenz!!!

 

[IMAUDIGGER]

Don’t mean to ask a silly question, but what are discards?

Discarded printing plates is what I meant.

 

[cw0909]

maybe OP can find the ad here
Minnesota Digital Newspaper Project : MNHS.ORG

 

[invent4hir]

BAM, nhbenz nailed it! Now you have the artifact and context to go with it! The members on this website never cease to amaze me!