Patent Model of a Hand Operated Printing Press
National Museum of American History

Patent Model of a Hand Operated Printing Press

Dean, George R. · ca 1861

metal (overall material)
National Museum of American History
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of American History

This patent model demonstrates an invention for a hand-operated printing press which was granted patent number 32242. This press, the Chatauqua Jobber, was a self-inking bench-top press along the lines of the A. and B. Newbury Mountain Jobber of 1859 (Patent 24655).

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