gary reeder
I unpacked about a thousand lbs of lead and
Wednesday, March 03, 2021, 21:07

linotype along with some mono type this afternoon. I had several full boxes of actual original linotype and monotype. For those not familiar with the two, the linotype is a full line of words for printing in a book. Monotype is a single letter to do the same. Printers would put the linotype and monotype in a holder forming sentences (and everything was backwards). Then it would be inked and sheets of paper would be run over the words and letters and under pressure it would be a page in a book printed out. Very few printers use that method anymore and the linotype and monotype letters and words are pretty rare. I will show more tomorrow.

I also found large blocks of hard lead and linotype, in probably 3 and 5 lb blocks. I also found a bunch of 50/50 bars of lead and tin. Most of what I found today is considerably more expensive than the wheel weight lead we have sold over the past few days. The linotype bars are about 1/2" wide and 1/4" thick and maybe 14" long. It is expensive but a piece about the size of a marble will harden up a 20 lb pot of wheel weights so a bar lasts a long time.