National Museum of American History
Patent Model for a Hand Printing Press
Learned, S. D. · ca 1857
This patent model demonstrates an invention for a small self-inking card press which was granted patent number 17405. A traveling frame carried the inking and impression rollers across the fixed type bed and ink plate.
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