Monday, August 6, 2018 -- United American Metals
Paul Duensing was handing out these keepsakes during a past "Monotype University". Paul had a small bronze hand-held mould that looked like something a Dutchman would use to make chocolate cookies. It appears the metal suppliers would sample the machine pots at a particular foundry and send these 'cookies' back to be analyzed for metal content.
Back in the day, it was critical to maintain the correct metal content for good machine production and efficiency (time was money); and why not advertise in the mean time.
Paul played with the hand mould to try to get a good image and finally resorted to an old caster trick of adding a thin dusting of talc powder to the mould to assist the flow of metal to get a good image.
About 1 1/2" in diameter; in hind-sight, it would be interesting to analyze the content to see what we were running in the machines. It was all recycled metal but ran quite well. What is the best way to check this out without melting it down?
It turns out the J. C. Winston company had an interesting history in Philadelphia. Established in 1884, it was a successful publisher of all types of books, including bibles. The impressive office building now survives as a restored condominium.
Monday, August 6, 2018 -- United American Metals
Paul Duensing was handing out these keepsakes during a past "Monotype University". Paul had a small bronze hand-held mould that looked like something a Dutchman would use to make chocolate cookies. It appears the metal suppliers would sample the machine pots at a particular foundry and send these 'cookies' back to be analyzed for metal content.
Back in the day, it was critical to maintain the correct metal content for good machine production and efficiency (time was money); and why not advertise in the mean time.
Paul played with the hand mould to try to get a good image and finally resorted to an old caster trick of adding a thin dusting of talc powder to the mould to assist the flow of metal to get a good image.
About 1 1/2" in diameter; in hind-sight, it would be interesting to analyze the content to see what we were running in the machines. It was all recycled metal but ran quite well. What is the best way to check this out without melting it down?
It turns out the J. C. Winston company had an interesting history in Philadelphia. Established in 1884, it was a successful publisher of all types of books, including bibles. The impressive office building now survives as a restored condominium.