After the Swoop

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You came, you saw, you swooped up a lot of great type, ornaments, wood type and more. Fifty plus people over two days; beyond our expectations! It's meant some serious time/work to get it all organized again as there are still 300+ type fonts left. True, the real rare ones are gone, but if you're just starting to build your type inventory, there's still a good selection of the more "common" working fonts. There's even a few sets of wood type left! 

Some of the items originally only available at the swoop will now be available online and will be posted on the website later this week.

 

Preparations Underway

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A couple weeks ago the real task of situating 20 plus cabinets on the floor began. Simple to arrange paper rectangles on grid paper. With the need to consider floor loading and allowing for plenty of room to pull and set case selections aside, it took a bit of pushing, pulling, coaxing to get them all arranged. Several tables are being heaped with all sorts of letterpress paraphernalia, while ornaments and print plates are being displayed on a slanted working top. And wood type fonts are being transferred into the Barrett's nationally recognized pizza boxes. It's just a week away, and there's lots more to get done, but come 9:00 a.m. Saturday the 21st, we'll be ready.

 
 
 

Wrapping Up & Winding Down

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It's the end of Spring, the start of Summer, and our "It's too hot up here!" shutdown is close at hand.

Imagine: New England in July, high heat and humidity, an old brick mill building, on the top floor with about five open windows and a bunch of giant fans. Physical activity, even just standing still, equals buckets of sweat!

 
 

Two Open Dates remain pre-summer shutdown, Saturday June 24th and Sunday June 25th. The crew is working hard to wrap up a number of projects in order to have as much new inventory out on the floor for these Open Dates.

Come by on the 24th and 25th and you'll find:

 
 

+ A Variety of "new" fonts in the type cabs. +

+ Some wood type fonts and some "Alpha" (similar to the Franken-Fonts from last October.) +

+ A number of pounds of icons, borders, etc. +

+ A big bunch of new plates. +

+ A few table-top presses. +

+ A growing selection of "one-of-a-kind" things. +

 

So this is it for the Winter and Spring seasons. Soon we'll slip away to get some rest, do some traveling and generally "wind down" after what's been a busy Spring. Looking forward to having you stop in!

Gelbert Swoop 2.0

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The Howie Gelbert Swoop on April 14th was well attended.

It was really nice to see so many letterpressers out and about on such a gorgeous Spring day.

The Swoop continues this Saturday, April 29th for anyone who couldn't make it earlier this month.

 

There's still a good variety of type fonts available as well as a furniture and reglet cabinet,

an Enkay Paper Trimmer, a 5 x 8 Kelsey, a half-size cabinet (12 cases), and a short open case cabinet in green.

 
 

Of course, there's lots of store inventory as well, including a rare item for us; 100 sheets of large rag paper.

See you Saturday! 

Swoop Details

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Just a day left until this Saturday's Swoop at Letterpress Things. There's a nice variety of "finds" from Howie's printshop.

Presses, such as a Vandercook 099, 5 x 8 and 3 x 5 Kelseys, as well several toy presses with rollers.

There's several books including catalogs and 40 plus ITC type specimen pamphlets.

 
 

We've got cases filled with over one hundred fonts of type including:

Caslon, Gallia, Raleigh, Shadow, Comstock and many others.

 
 
 
 

You'll also find couple of fonts of wood type alongside plates, ornaments,

- and several tables of good ole' fashioned "letterpress things."

The weather's looking good, so come out and make a spring day trip to Chicopee!

"Franken-Fonts"

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Over the years, Letterpress Things has accumulated a large collection of orphan wood type, and though we try our best to complete as many sets of type as we can, some letters are so odd and rare that we've never been able to find a home for them.

So, in the spirit of the season, we've cobbled together several wood type sets we're calling "Franken-Fonts." Each font contains every letter of the alphabet in varying styles and sizes along with assorted punctuation.

                                                     FF-01  sOLD!

                                                     FF-02  Sold!

                                                      FF-03 sOLD!

While these three wood type sets are for sale online, there are seven more of these "Franken-Fonts" available only for purchase in store during our open date, Saturday October 29th. All fonts are sold on a first come, first serve basis.

We hope you'll visit the store this weekend to see rest of our wood type creations!