One of the things I purchased from my recent road trip besides cast iron was a box of printers blocks. I was in hopes of finding the Griswold block shown on p. 218 of the BB but there wasn't any after looking through almost 100 pieces.
I did find one piece that got my interest of which I'd like to share. It has no name so I'm thinking it was used for general newspaper adds for various companies. It's very old and still works...I tried it. This one seems to have been made from Zinc. My research indicates that copper, zinc & rubber were the main materials used by the old newspaper companies.
http://imgur.com/a/R88Nu
I did find one piece that got my interest of which I'd like to share. It has no name so I'm thinking it was used for general newspaper adds for various companies. It's very old and still works...I tried it. This one seems to have been made from Zinc. My research indicates that copper, zinc & rubber were the main materials used by the old newspaper companies.
http://imgur.com/a/R88Nu