Terrific Old COPY Printing Block Victorian portraut Illinois company were thoughtful and

Illinois company were thoughtful and smart

The carving itself I think is terrific

and perched at top

with these fantastic thick curling grass braids secured with splint loops against a checkerboard splint background

No foxing or notable aging to the paper at all

Terrific Old COPY Printing Block Victorian portraut Illinois company were thoughtful andI pass by hundreds if not thousands of old printing blocks for every one that I purchase, and this one appeals to me on all fronts. I think it's just a beautiful object to begin with, and the font on the capital letters, outlined in copper I believe, just right for the word. I also love it for the resonance the word "copy" carries here: copy referring to content, as in text, which the word "copy" itself is, and also as in copies, which the function of