VOLVO AUTOMOTIVE (VOLVO PERSONVAGNAR) - LETTERPRESS PRINTER'S BLOCK - RARE ITEM

Description

VOLVO AUTOMOTIVE
(VOLVO PERSONVAGNAR),
LETTERPRESS PRINTER'S
BLOCK - RARE ITEM.
Lead-based Letterpress Wooden
Printing Block.
NOTE꞉
If you want to purchase a piece of vintage automotive history, don't buy an image ripped out of some magazine or newspaper. Instead, buy the printing block that printed the actual image!
QUANTITY꞉
ONE vintage VOLVO letterpress printing block.
CIRCA꞉
Estimated to be 1960s-1970s.
RARITY꞉
You are purchasing an EXTREMELY rare / unique, American-made letterpress printing block.  In the late 1800's (and up through the mid-1900's) books, posters, tickets, forms, newspapers, and other types of printed paper were produced on a printing press.  Movable type and wooden / metal printing blocks (also known as a letterpress cut or printing dies) were set in a frame (known as a chase) and ink was rolled over the surface of the metal image with a roller (also known as a brayer) before the paper was pressed into the inked surface.  This process was known as relief printing which included woodcut, relief etching, linocut, linotype, and metal cut.
You are purchasing an EXTREMELY rare / unique, letterpress printing block likely intended for use at an American newspaper to print this automotive company's advertising - - likely for a local dealership.
DIMENSIONS꞉
This wood and metal letterpress printing block measures 0.912" deep by 0.98" high by 0.95" wide and weighs 1.0 ounce (29 grams).  This stamp is a professionally made letterpress block used for printing.  It shows some surface wear from being in the press.
A LITTLE ABOUT VOLVO꞉
Volvo Car Corporation, or Volvo Personvagnar AB, is a Swedish automobile manufacturer founded in 1927, in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is [now] owned by Zhejiang Geely Holding Group. Volvo was originally formed as a subsidiary company to the ball bearing maker SKF (Svenska Kullagerfabriken). When Volvo AB was introduced on the Swedish stock exchange in 1935, SKF sold most of the shares in the company. Volvo Cars was owned by AB Volvo until 1999, when it was acquired by the Ford Motor Company as part of its Premier Automotive Group. Geely Holding Group then acquired Volvo from Ford in 2010.
Volvo produces models ranging from SUVs, station wagons (estates), and sedans (saloons), to compact executive sedans and coupes. The United States is Volvo Cars' largest market, followed by Sweden, Great Britain, Germany and China.
CONDITION꞉
This letterpress printing block is used.
ORIENTATION꞉
Wrong reading.  What this means is when you hold the block in your hand and look at the metal die, the image is reversed.
NOTES ABOUT THE IMAGE SURFACE:
Every time a die passes through the printing press, the pressure of the die imprinting on the paper subtly degrades the surface of the plate/die/block.  Please see the listing's photographs if you have any questions regarding the suitability of this block if you actually intend to use it for printing.
SHIPPING COST꞉
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