Printers' Devices Record | |||||
18 x 8 mm.
© Silver Quoin Press |
Printer/Publisher: Silver Quoin Press. Dille, James M. (James Madison), 1907- | ||
Country: Washington (U.S.) | City: Seattle | Date: 1947 | |
Keywords: quoins | |||
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Names, Initials: JD | |||
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Device Reference: Weygand, J.L. Collection of pressmarks p. 61 Go to Page: 60 62 |
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Notes: "While James M. Dille was casting about for a suitable handle for his press, he decided that Quoin it should be, since that tiny apparatus was common to every printery. Calling it the Silver Quoin Press seemed to him to lift it out of the common place." © James Lamar Weygand | |||
Source: Weygand, James Lamar. A collection of pressmarks gathered from America's private presses and from others not so private. Nappanee, Ind., Private Press of the Indiana Kid, 1956. |
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Reference: | |||
Location: University of Florida | |||
URL: https://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/rarebook/devices/silverquoin.htm |