Charles Bukowski - American author
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For those of you who are not familiar with these, they are probably photos (reversed) of printing blocks. I have a bunch of these here and they are nearly worthless. If you has an early Coca Cola, it would MAYBE worth $100 to a hardcore collector. This whole lot is worth maybe $25, and frankly, I would not even pay that for it as there is no one out there that can really make use out of printing cuts of mom and pop stores. i have some for Texaco, etc and they are equally worthless.
They claim that they are for leather tooling, but I doubt it for a couple reasons. 1) who would Stamp "smith-Faus Drug Co" on a belt and 2) The backs are made of wood. Hit once and they will split or smash. A leather die would have to be much more durable. If these were leather dies, they would be equally valueless....
Fishing for fools, indeed.
Bill
For those of you who are not familiar with these, they are probably photos (reversed) of printing blocks. I have a bunch of these here and they are nearly worthless. If you has an early Coca Cola, it would MAYBE worth $100 to a hardcore collector. This whole lot is worth maybe $25, and frankly, I would not even pay that for it as there is no one out there that can really make use out of printing cuts of mom and pop stores. i have some for Texaco, etc and they are equally worthless.
They claim that they are for leather tooling, but I doubt it for a couple reasons. 1) who would Stamp "smith-Faus Drug Co" on a belt and 2) The backs are made of wood. Hit once and they will split or smash. A leather die would have to be much more durable. If these were leather dies, they would be equally valueless....
Fishing for fools, indeed.
Bill