Addressograph Operating Maintenance Manual Model F2 Metal Plate Embosser 1925

US $51.07

Bakersfield, California, United States
May 16th

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Check out our store under the "Books > Repair Manuals" category for other similar vintage items and save on shipping! Estate sale find, original vintage copy of Instructions for Operating model F2 Addressograph, March 1925. The Addressograph Company was established in 1892 and manufactured label-making machinery. The Addressograph was a major leap forward in “duplicating equipment.” J.S. Duncan started the Addressograph Company in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1892. A year later he set up shop in Chicago and applied for a patent on an addressing machine that could churn out 2,000 envelopes per hour. The first one went into production in an office within the original Caxton Building (Dearborn St.) in the summer of 1893, while the “White City” Columbian Exposition was going on down the road. Within a few years, the machines were all over the city. J.S. Duncan became frustrated over the lack of efficiency he witnessed each day at his job in a grain mill, as office workers individually addressed price lists and bids to clients, one by one. Duncan went in search of some sort of labeling machine to automate the process, but found nothing. “The addressing machine idea had been clinging to me persistently,” Duncan recalled in a 1918 article in Manufacturing and Wholsesale Industries of Chicago, “and as I had a good deal of mechanical experience in my work at the mill, I decided to experiment with the hope of producing a device which could be marketed.” By the late teens into the 1920's, the electrically-operated model F2 Addressograph became the new standard, printing through a ribbon from metal address plates embossed with permanent typewriter-style type. Duncan sold his company and retired in 1926 (he died in 1950 at 92). Addressograph merged with the American Multigraph Co. in 1930, becoming Addressograph-Multigraph and relocating to Cleveland. Softcover, illustrated, 28 pages, Language: English, Product Dimensions: roughly 6" X 9", approximate shipping weight: 5 ounces. PLEASE SEE PHOTOS FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS - The booklet is in overall Good used condition, signs of wear, surface scuffs, sunning, fading, age toning, soiling, creases, stains, no writing, no odors. Please see images. (C1A10-002)

“PLEASE SEE PHOTOS FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS - The booklet is in overall Good used condition, signs of wear, surface scuffs, sunning, fading, age toning, soiling, creases, stains, no writing, no odors. Please see images.(C1A10-002)”

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Manual

Country/Region of Manufacture

United States

Equipment Type

Addressograph Model F2

Subject Area

Addressograph Model F2

ISBN

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