A few years ago, Jessica and I went on a little road trip to Wisconsin to pick up a little kelsey tabletop press. The man I bought it from had been a printer when he was younger and he’d been storing a few presses, type, etc in his basement for a long time.
Along with my press I loaded up a few boxes of type and other mysterious things. Those boxes have pretty much just sat quietly for the last few years being moved from place to place (much to my husband’s chagrin) but not really paid attention to, until now.
We’re doing a bit of end of summer cleaning and purging so we’ve been opening up old boxes and trying to figure out what to do with the contents. These boxes have been sitting quietly waiting their turn. Today I started poking around in the boxes and found a whole treasure trove of interesting things including these old ink tins. (still full of ink!)
They’re so cute. I have no clue what I will do with them but I just can’t bring myself to throw them away. Perhaps I’ll empty out the ink and use them as little boxes in my studio. They’re too awesome to not get a second life doing something.
