More about the Letterpress Cabinet

There are 20 drawers (sorry, my memory was bad..) and 3 are empty. View more pictures here.
Price is $1000 plus shipping - or you can come pick it up. Bring a truck - the cabinet won't fit into a car! I have tried!
The cabinet measures 25.125" wide x 20.75" deep x 44" high. I suspect that some font sets are split into two drawers, but not sure. The top of cabinet overhangs slightly, measuring 26.5" wide x 21.5" deep, not quite 1" thick.Weight of the 20 drawers with type (sans outer cabinet) is 188.9 lbs. An empty drawer weights 1.5 lbs. so the type itself weighs 159 lbs. I'm estimating the empty cabinet weighs 45-50 lbs but have no way to weigh it.

There are 3 sizes of Greeting Monotone™ Std Regular view font here

and several sizes of a Times Roman style including an italic, 2 sizes of what looks like Copperplate or Plate Gothic, a Bank Gothic Medium,
a nice script similar to this, a wide Gothic with really round C's, an engraved font similar to Bernard Modern, and a very tall, Blackletter-like title font that I cannot find in a font list. See below. Click any photo for a larger view or the view more pictures link above to see more.

Hamilton 24 drawer cabinet with 18 drawers of type

Anyone want a lovely oak Hamilton letterpress typeface cabinet, with type? I bought this hoping to use the letters to impress into clay for jewelry - works fine, but too tedious and slow to be something that actually works. Still haven't lived down my husband's dismay, and would like to sell it. Warning: the lead type is HEAVY. Would sell type separately. Hope to post fonts - there are a wide variety of sizes, including some great old-school stuff and some teeny tiny 6pt newspaper types.


Please contact me at bylynette @gmail.com if you are interested.

Laura's Faerie Wings

Here's a shot from Laura and Aaron's wedding - wearing their wedding wings. Laura made nearly 60 pair of wings for her wedding - to give as gifts and favors. She makes wings as gifts and will soon be teaching you how at a class at Vintiques in Kansas City.

Natural Easter Eggs

It's almost Easter and when my kids were home that always meant making cinnamon rolls, cardomom dove rolls (recipe originally from Sunset Magazine) and coloring eggs. We still do, even though not so many. But....for those who actually read this blog, here are a couple easy ways to naturally color hard boiled eggs for Easter treats or anytime.

For many shades of brown, tan, and rust - gather 2-3 hand-fulls of dry, yellow onion skins. If your grocer allows, just dig them out of the bins. Or husk them off a bag of onions you buy. The trick is DRY, papery onion skins. Put them into a stainless steel cooking pan, add the eggs and water to generously cover the eggs. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer about 10 minutes. Turn off heat and let sit in the onion water. The longer they sit, the more intense the colors become. The ones in the photo sat overnight. This is how my Grandma used to color eggs for us.

For the great robin's egg blue - buy a small head of red cabbage. Shred it finely in a food processor and place into heat-proof strainer seated over your egg-cooking pan. Bring a teakettle of water to boil, and pour boiling water over the cabbage. Use this strained cabbage water to cook your eggs in OR let your pre-boiled eggs steep in the cabbage water. Again, the longer the wait, the deeper the color.

There's more - spinach for pale green, tumeric for yellow, beets for rose, etc. Google "natural egg coloring" or click here.

Bead Sources

Recently, a peyote-stitched beaded bracelet pattern of mine was published in Step by Step Beads. If you are looking for the EXACT beads I used, check here. I have listed my sources, to the best of my ability. My bead stash goes back a while and some exact beads are not currently available from the same sources.