Antique Copper Wood Electrotype Print Block Bateman Mfg Iron Age Potato Planter, US $19.85 – Picture 0

Antique Copper Wood Electrotype Print Block Bateman Mfg Iron Age Potato Planter, US $19.85 – Picture 1

Antique Copper Wood Electrotype Print Block Bateman Mfg Iron Age Potato Planter

US $19.85

United States
Jan 30th

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Heartfelt thanks to all my bidders, lookers, and buyers for helping me earn a "Favorite Seller" commendation from ebay! Hi and welcome to my auction! ebay's greatest bargains are right here! I strive to put on 25 new auctions every evening (afternoons on weekends) so keep on checking back for the most unique, exotic, hard-to-find, and gorgeous vintage jewelry. Some of them are "$1.00 start" and "No Reserve"! "Some great new stuff too - mostly all made with Swarovski Austrian crystal rhinestones - at BELOW WHOLESALE prices too! If you miss a day you've missed a lot! Auctions the way they oughta be! Description: Antique (mid to late 1800s) printing block designed to print an image in ads/catalogues for Bateman Manufacturing Companies Iron Age line of farm equipment - manufactured in Grenloch, New Jersey. The block is made of a drak exotic wood with a copper electrotype depiction of a ONE-MAN POTATO PLANTER WITH FERTILZER DISTRIBUTOR. It reads "Iron Age" right on it and the block is numbered (not for number made but for storage and retrieval when needed for printing).This is a one-of-a-kind piece and is highly collectible! Condition: Very good. Measurements: 2.75 inches by 2 5/8ths inches. Just under 1 inch thick. In 1836 the Bateman Manufacturing Company started doing business in Grenloch, New Jersey. They manufactured farm and garden machinery and implements and had many innovations and inventions (including the potato digger). Toward the late 1800s they started marketing these products under the name of “Iron Age.” They sold their products all over the world and marketed them through catalogues, trade journals, and other printed matter ads. To illustrate their products they relied on printing blocks which followed the same progression throughout the decades as the printing innovations – starting with hand carved boxwood blocks to stereotypes (making a mold of the engraved block in plaster and pouring in molten metal [similar to type metal] to make a cast. The cast was then mounted onto a block of wood to make the printing surface the same height as the type. Then came electrotyping with copper. A basic description of the process is as follows. The engraved surface of the woodblock was pressed into hard wax making an impression that could be used as a mold. This mold was then dusted with ‘black leading’ to provide an electrically conductive surface. The mold was placed in an electrolytic bath and a thin shell or skin of copper deposited over the surface of the mold. The copper skin was stripped off the mold, laid face down in a tray and the back filled with type metal to give it strength. The resulting metal electrotype, commonly called an electro, was then mounted onto a block of wood and printed alongside type. In this way many copies could be made and distributed of one wood-engraving. My one-of-a-kind collection contains examples from all of these techniques and these fine, all different, blocks are now being offered to the world of print block collectors, antiquities lovers, and antique farm equipment aficionados. They come directly from the stored estate of the Bateman Family in Grenoch, New Jersey. Most of the boxwood came from a company called V. Grottenthaler in Philadelphia (listed in 1867 to 1876 as “manufacturers of Boxwood for engraver’s use. Some of the slighter later boxwood was stamped “C. Van Vlack Springfield, Mass. (Listed in a 1913 directory of Massachusetts businesses). Some blocks are signed “Carlton Engraving Company Worcester, Mass” which was founded in 1908 by Herbert Carlton. This company specialized in half-tones and engraving plates. In the late 1920s, Carlton became president of the New England Photo Engravers Association. For a while Bateman Mfg. operated in Totono, Canada under the name Batemen-Wilkinson. Bateman’s Iron Age transferred from them to Farquahar in York, PA around 1930. Farquahar had been selling its Iron Age implement lines for years prior to the actual buy-out and continued with various Iron Age sprayers and other equipment. Disclaimer: I have researched these blocks and guarantee them to be the real deal and the source to be without question since I personally removed them from a former very old house of Mr. Bateman after purchasing them and there was also some company literature in this stockpile. Since this is not my areas of expertise I do not know about exact techniques and what years they were employed, and although I am not an expert on early farm equipment or implements I have matched up some of these pieces with their actual pictures in Bateman catalogues from the mid -1800s to the early 1900s. Thanks for looking/bidding. A low starting bid kicks this off and there is no reserve! Please check out my other auctions for the best deals on vintage jewelry. Plenty of good $1.00 start items so watch closely if you want great deals. Also, don't be fooled by the "dollar start," I have sold items with an assessed value of up to $90.00 for a single one dollar bid! My site is one place where you actually get more than you pay for! Try me! For all those who bid on several of my items at a time I offer limited s&h discounts (I wish I could even do more but, as you can imagine, there is "no fat" in my auctions). 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Condition	Used : An item that has been used previously. The item may have some signs of cosmetic wear, but is fully operational and functions as intended. This item may be a floor model or store return that has been used. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
Seller Notes	“Very good condition - only one of its type in existence”