| Now Offering Intermediate Letterpress Workshops in Alexandria / see Workshops page |
Since our first workshop in December of 2004 we have had 130 workshops with a total of 239 students. Students have come from as far away as Alaska, Hawaii, California, New Mexico, Montana, Kansas, Illinois, Tennessee, Louisiana, North Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, New Jersey and England. Letterpress printing is alive and well.
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| Workshop Gift Certificates Available |
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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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STILL 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 $40 direct from Railway Station Press by paying by Paypal at stuartbradley@comcast.net
They are also available at "A Show of Hands" gift shop at 2204 Mt. Vernon Avenue in Alexandria, VA 22301 and at Zigzag gift shop at 6477 Main Street, The Plains, Virginia 20198 or call Susan Jeffries at 540-253-5364.
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To contact Stuart Bradley by email: click on the business card below.
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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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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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