antique printing blocks

[monkeylizard]

I think these are awesome! My mom found them for me some place. What a cool gift.

[gjohnsoniv]

Now THOSE are cool.

[QuietDan]

Let us know if you want someone to take 'em off your hands . . . (!!!)

[monkeylizard]

Yeah, I think these will stay with me for a loooong time.

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Super-X .300 H&H Magnum soft point

Western .270 Winchester open point expanding

Super-X 218 Bee open point expanding

Xpert 22 Long Rifle

[monkeylizard]

Any ammo guys have a guess on how old these might be?

[gjohnsoniv]

I would say probably the 20's or 30's, maybe even up into the 40's but I have no clue what so ever.

[BLACKVANDRIVER]

Those would be great for arts and crafts day at my sons school!

[monkeylizard]

Oh no. These would get him expelled for bringing a weapon to school. He'd better not draw any pictures of guns to go with the printed ammo. Then it's probably a GFSZA violation.

Edited October 30, 2012 by monkeylizard

[Mdunntn]

Those things are awesome!

Sent from secret underground bunker

[KahrMan]

Those are very cool. Used to be in the printing business. You could still use those in a letterpress.

[RED333]

They were made last week, aint worth no money, I will give 1 dollar each for them!

All joking aside, thet are very cool, I would search the web, ebay, other gun sites.

[Mike.357]

they are called engravings. I did printing on letterpresses with this stuff in a career gone by.

I can imagine they were used for printing ammo boxes.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

They were used up into the 60's maybe 70's, but for a long time before that. You caught a prize with them.

Like Mike said, or they were used in newspaper or catalog ads. It's good that someone thought to keep them.

[monkeylizard]

Ammo boxes or adverts were what I was thinking too. I've been working on my Google-fu and have yet to turn up anything like them.

Edited October 31, 2012 by monkeylizard