Possible Civil War era printing block

[itzyoboyandrew]

Only good find so far of today but was pretty happy about this one. I dont know exactly what it came off of but it mentions either "sections of the Union" or "actions of the union" as well as mentions the state where I live (Georgia) and mentions i believe soil & pasturage. Would be awesome to know what its actually talking about - maybe some civil war buffs out there can give some knowledge? The picture is flipped as the text is normally reversed.

 

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[peruna]

great find!

 

[itzyoboyandrew]

Found another piece, hopefully this helps with getting more info, the title appears to be "R M Shepard a (stanbury?) at ?"

 

[Rookster]

Congratulations. Nice find.

 

[Reanm8er]

Nice find/finds Andrew,

Most of the time local events were set in block type and were blocked at the press. Wide spread advertisements or perhaps governmental postings were often mass produced and distributed to the papers with the best distribution.

This is a likely example of that policy.

Best wishes and good luck!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Very nice relic recovery!

 

[dirtlooter]

pretty awesome

 

[A2coins]

Cool find throw some ink on it lets see it

 

[Whyme]

Very cool! Congrats! I agree with A2.... put some ink on it and print it!

 

[itzyoboyandrew]

By some miracle someone found the exact newspaper from 1902 the printing block came from.

https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053207/1902-06-06/ed-1/seq-3/