1870 IC printing plate

[Gregory Koepp]

just got this heavy bugger in! 1870 plate on oak with tack nails holding it all together. really nice and seems from the time? the cross is pretty big and is very heavy too.

what do you think?

thanks greg

[Bill M]

--Yow! Id like something like that!

[Brian S]

I wonder what they were printing. Probably this was a recurring top part of a page.

[Bill M]

--You know, those were my thoughts as well.
--Big pages though, no? It looks to be around 11 inches wide.
--Document, I don't know. Maybe newspaper or book?

[Brian S]

Maybe Rick L. will recognize a presenation page or awards page with this exact block.

[Gregory Koepp]

it would be cool to find out what this was used on?? like a doc or news paper? it is milled and carved on a 1/4 cast iron type medal and tacked with about 6 nails onto a oak board with i think no#335 or so on it. it's up stairs so i'm guessing on the #..
do you think it's from the time? 1870?

thanks greg

[Bill M]

--Depending upon what it was for I would think it would be pre-Jubilee as there may have been a '25' reference otherwise....?
--Only a thought - I'm just shooting in the dark here, actually...

[Doug See]

Greg,
Nice item if I do say so myself. Bill, I sold this on eBay. I had this plate listed twice and Greg was one of the FEW bidders. Trouble with eBay is that it's gotten such a bad reputation from the scam artists that a lot of good collectors don't bother with it. You can still find good items. I've sold quite a few nice 1914 EK'1s in the past weeks. (seller b24d).

Greg, I've been a printer for 30 years. My opinion is that this is a ca. 1870-1900 period plate.
Doug

[Gregory Koepp]

hey!!!

hi doug!!! hey great plate and thanks alot!!!! do you still have the other one??? i think this plate is super and you really hooked me up!!!!! thank you thank you!!! what do you think they used this on doug?

again thanks doug!

greg

[Tyler Ramsey]

This might have been used on posters, like at the top would be the EK and then a message for that particular unit would be put on it, and then they would hang the poster up, and then when they got a new message, maybe even a order for all the troops to see, they would take that down and put up another message.

[Doug See]

I think Tyler's probably right with his poster idea. The other plate I had awas cast iron and I believe it was used for printing cardboard cartons, maybe even the cartons crosses were shipped in. No one has used cast iron for printing plates since the 1860's-70's. It had the words "Eisernes Kreuz" and pictured an undated cross. I believe it was probably 1830's.