Lala Lyla! 🎶✨A cool thing: the building my school is in used to be a VERY old post office until the city sold it to the administration! So it still has a lot of really old mail stuff (?) and it's so awesome!! #photography
Dr. Edward Morbius 🔴@lylaha Is that school in Oregon by any chance?
@dredmorbius Yes, it's PNCA! 🙂
@lylaha I've started getting more interested in the history of printing and publishing so I looked up the marks on the press. James Moran wrote a history of presses in 1973 and mentions that there are two "J. Esson" variants around:
@lylaha The press used to be at Vintage Press in Mollala, OR.
Actually, they're the only two surviving Lion presses, period.
@lylaha I'd assumed they were probably ~1810 - 1840 or so, as steam-powered and rotary presses were being developed after then, but apparently this is a high-force embossing press, used by banks.