| Letterpress Workshops for Beginners in Alexandria / see Workshops page / We now do Custom Invitations |
Since our first workshop in December of 2004 we have had seventy six workshops with a total of 139 students. Students have come from as far away as Alaska, Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Montana, Illinois, Tennessee, Louisiana, North Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and England. Letterpress printing is alive and well.
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| Cover of the box that the playing cards come in. |
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| Letterpress Playing Cards |
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NOW AVAILABLE, a letterpress
printed deck of 54 playing cards based on the Midway Midgets, a set of ornaments cast by BB&S in 1893 in
honor of the Chicago World's Fair. These characters were actual participants on the Midway of the Fair. "Midget" referred to the size of the type ornament and not the person portrayed. The playing cards are standard size 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches.
The deck also includes letterpress printed historical material and photographs and was printed by hand on a C&P Pilot press in a numbered first edition limited to 100 decks.
You can purchase a deck for $60 direct from Railway Station Press by paying by Paypal at stuartbradley@comcast.net or online at www.railwaystationpress.etsy.com or at "A Show of Hands" gift shop at 2204 Mt. Vernon Avenue in Alexandria, VA 22301. They are also available at Zigzag gift shop at 6477 Main Street, The Plains, Virginia 20198 or call Susan Jeffries at 540-253-5364. There is additional information at the Midway Midgets page of this website.
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| Click on image above to go to my etsy.com store to purchase the Midway Midgets 1893 Letterpress Playing Cards |
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| Click on image to go to website of A Show of Hands gift shop in Alexandria, Virginia |
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To contact Stuart Bradley
by email click on the above business card.
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| Boyce Railway Station, Clarke County, Virginia |
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| The Boyce Railway Station was built in 1913 on the Norfolk & Western Railway. It was built with private funds in terra cotta and beautiful cypress woodwork throughout. The printing shop and offices of the Railway Station Press are located in the Small Waiting Room. The press has expanded to an Alexandria, Virginia location where the workshops are now taught.
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| The south end of the Small Waiting Room |
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| The Poco Proof Press #2 and the Chandler & Price Oldstyle 10 x 15 press are on the south side of the Small Waiting Room. Because of the high ceilings and the large windows there is plenty of natural light for working in the Small Waiting Room.
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| Norfolk Southern freight train |
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| There are from ten to twenty freight trains a day that pass the station. Passenger service from Boyce was discontinued in 1956 and the station is privately owned by the Railway Mail Service Library Inc. Click on the photo to the left to go to the RMS Library's website.
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Number of visitors since May 26, 2006. Website was created in 2003.
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| Copyright Notice: The words and images on this website are protected by the copyright laws of the United States. We specifically extend this copyright to the design of our cards, booklets, broadsides and other creative works. To the left, an enlargement of a fist ornament from 1835 provided by Rich Hopkins.
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