Form Locked up in Heidelberg Windmill Chase
Form locked up using pieces from one starter font of wood furniture

Thompson Cabinet Company
Logo Plate

Pilot Cabinet #1
Front Left View

Pilot Bench #1
Right Front View

Pilot Bench #1
DRAWER
detail

Pilot Bench #1
Chase Slots

Pilot Bench #2
Front View
(may not be Thompson)

Pilot Bench #2
Front / Side View
note: Back is open.

Thompson/Kelsey
Two-Thirds Sized, 10-Case Frame

Type Cabinet - Enclosed
Two-Thirds Size
Ten Type Cases
Plus drawer

Hamilton Wood Cabinet
Full-sized, 24 case capacity

Cabinet on Skid

View larger image to see notes on crating detail

Case Block Detail

Packaged Cabinet

Two re-usable light cargo straps
wrapped in corrugated cardboard.

Crate is loaded on truck

USPS Receipt
for package shipped to
Schmitz Press

Wickersham Quoins
(1) 3-DISK-CAM
Pat. 10-9-23

Silverware
Could this be
Charm Satin 18/8
by Cambridge Silversmiths?

Brown Multi
Multilith 1250

Heidelberg Windmill Platen Press
10x15

Louis Visits the Shop
Jan 22, 2009
Press: 10x15 Chandler & Price New Series
circa 1914

Kelsey Excelsior 9x13
Peter Lewis' Press
in Colorado
200#

Type Cabinet
"City Stand"
holds 12 lip-front, full sized job cases

Type Cabinet
City Stand
side pieces
Disassembled

Two Pilot Presses
Left: C&P Pilot,
Right Craftsmen Superior
both 6 1/2x 10 Chase size, pretty much identical

6x10 Kelsey Press & Kit
Note the roller mount system

City Stand Side Frame Pieces
Holds 13 lip-front or thin
Full-sized California Job Cases

Top View of City Stand #2
note support brackets to hold cases or a letterboard

Front View of City Stand #2
15-case rack

City Stand # 2
Paint Detail

Chase Latch for Kelsey Star 7x11
Platen Press

Chandler & Price Feedboards
top board - 8x12 made by Thompson Cabinet Co
bottom board - the one from our 10x15
center board - new Cherry board made for Alisha's press

Round Corner Sanding Jig

Sanding Rond Corners
for 10x15 C&P Feed Board

Kelsey Complete Printing Outfit
Oufit 1A (from 1935 catalog)
Type, press, ink - everything
& more from Kelsey's 1935 Catalog

Kelsey Complete Printing Outfit
Advertisement from 1935 Kelsey Catalog

Kelsey Parts Warning
Kelsey Models were not all identical

Kelsey Complete Printing Outfit
circa 1929

Excelsior Press
Complete Printing Outift
circa 2010

Kelsey Excelsior Press
Model 3x5
Fully restored by
Excelsior Company

Padding Brush - Frozen
Winter in the Print Shop
at 20 degrees
12/15/10

C&P Pilot Old Style
Chase Bed

C&P Pilot Old Style
Chase Bed
with platen gauges

Kelsey Chase Bed Gauge
used to level platens at
The Kelsey Company
Meriden, Connecticut

Decoy Neck

Engineering Drawing
Pearl Printing Press
Inking Idler Roller
Mounting Bracket

Roller Truck Detail
9x13 Kelsey Excelsior

Detail of roller trucks - 9x13 Kelsey
3/8" i.d. / 1 7/16" o.d.
trucks should be made 1/2-3/4" wide and lock on the roller shaft

9x13 Kelsey - TWO narrow roller trucks

Roller Handle
for Vandercook SP15

5x8 Golding Official
5x8 Kelsey Excelsior
Table Top
Platen Presses

SilverDocs Press
A Traveling Printing Demonstration Kit
early 1900 Golding Official 5x8 Table Top Platen Press
Kiss The Paper Silverdocs Poster

Kiss The Paper Poster
A Documentary Film by Fiona Otway

Chandler & Price
10x15
Old Style Treadle bebeath new Hern Treadle

1000 File Folders, printed and drying
50 stacked on delivery of 10x15 C&P platen press

New Chase made for Golding Official

Golding Official #3
Original Chase size 5 x 7 1/2"

8x12 C& Starter Kit
prepared for Cory
ref: Rick The Printer

Custom Furniture Kit
for
Showcard 23" press
-or Vandercook Galley

Kimble Motor
mounted on 10x15 C&P
note mchanical speed control lever

Kimble Motor
mounted on 10x15 C&P

Kimble Motor
Name plate

Cleaning a hard-to-reach Follower
Clean and oil this little wheel to prevent wear that can lead to looseness and rocking of the platen.

Excelsior Chase-Base
milled from Richlite
to fite 9x13 Kelsey Excelsior

9x13 Kelsey Excelsior Press
with Excelsior Chase-Base installed.
- The largest table top platen press made in the 20th Century -
mfg by The Kelsey Company of Meriden, Connecticut