Links to other sites of interest to letterpress printers

ExcelsiorPress.org

Other Links of Interest to Letterpress Printers:
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(List initially compiled by Valerie Coombe)
- http://www.museumofprinting.org/
- http://members.aol.com/aapa96/lpress.html- The American Amateur Press Association links page
Publications

The Olde Mill House Gallery and Printing Museum, Old Homosassa, Florida
Excelsior Press Museum Pages - under development..
MUST SEE!: http://briarpress.org The Briar Press online Letterpress Museum and Letterpress reference center
From our Friends Down Under: The Penrith Museum of Printing in Penrith, NSW Australia.
AAPA Complete List of dozens of Printing Museums: http://members.aol.com/aapa96/museums.htm
A page on the Sigwalt Press - and others. http://clintock.com/first_floor/living_room/glass_case/sigwalt.php
Letterpress Printing in the 60's - http://letterpressprinting.com.au/

Heavy Metal Madness: First Day at Letterpress High - a series of articles about learning letterpress today.
New York City - The Center for Book Arts
Halifax, Nova Scotia - The Dawson Print Shop -
Hamburg, Germany - Forum Book Arts in Hamburg - contemporary events in and references to the world of Book Arts
New York City: MUST SEE!: INTRODUCTION TO LETTERPRESS PRINTING IN THE 21ST CENTURY - David S. Rose / Five Roses Press / New York, NY
Indiana - Blue Stone Folk School Introduction to Letterpress
Chicopee, Mass - Letterpress Workshops at Letterpress Things

PrintEquip.com- - the web's original, largest and best - used printing equipment website - find antique presses, shops, typecasters for sale or donation
eBay.com - the most popular flea market / auction site for letterpress stuff ever!
Briar Press Classifieds

DaleGuild Type Foundry - Theo Rehak - the last man alive casting quality ATF Foundry Type on Barth Casters
NA Graphics, Silverton, Colorado - Type, Vandercook and other letterpress parts & supplies
Hot Metal Home page - listing of hot metal type casters
The Sind National Type Foundry - Jaipur, India
The Vandercook Press site begun by Mark Wilden, managed now by Paul Moxon -
The Sind Type Foundry - Still casting type in India

Stempel Foundry in Europe -
David Bolton's Excellent website all about Type Cases
Skyline Type Foundry - casting fonts of hand-set monotype fonts - nice stuff!
INK - NA Graphics Ink by the pound, by the tube
List of active Type Foundries by AAPA
Letterpress Things - Chicopee, MA - Selling all sorts of letterpress tools, parts, etc...
http://www.metaltype.co.uk/ METAL TYPE is the place for Printers and Typesetters who remember the old days of Letterpress Printing to come and reminisce.
Hubbard Type Foundry - UK

Owosso Graphic Arts - over 50 years in the business making dies and engravings for letterpress printing, embossing and foil stamping. - Michigan
Photo-Polymer Plates

Excerpts from Fred William's "Type & Press " are made available to us by the APA on their web site.

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