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Printers Blocks
Printers Blocks Related to Vintage Radio, Electronics, and Soldering
These wooden printers blocks were used in the printing process for adding graphics to printed newspaper and magazine ads, catalogs, boxes, etc.
The reversed image on soft metal would be attached to a wood block to be set in an ad space on a page to be printed.
The inked page with the block would then transfer the text along with the image onto the page.
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RCA Nipper Printers Block
RCA Nipper Printers Block with the classic round Nipper/His Master's Voice
and RCA Meatball logo.
3" long.
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Soldering Iron Printers Block
This block depicts an electric soldering iron. Block is 2 & 5/8" long.
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1920s Soldering Iron Printers Block
I thought this was pretty interesting when I found it. The plug on the soldering iron gives the time period away.
The iron has a standard Edison type screw connector for screwing into a light socket.
Light sockets were used in the 1920s to power lights and other things before houses were wired with outlets like we have today.
Block is 2½" x 1".
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Sure-Flux Core Solder Printers Block
Block is 1 5/8" x 1 5/8".
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Nokorode Core Solder Printers Block
"For All Soldering
Guaranteed Virgin Metal"
Block is 5/8" x 1 1/8".
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Supreme Instruments Printer's Blocks
From my collecrion of Supreme Test Equipment
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Left: A 1930s Printer's block for a Supreme Radio Diagnometer printed advertisment.
Below:
Printer's block for the "Supreme Service League".
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