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An untidy assortment of engraved blocks, typesettings and other items sitting on a number of galleys pulled out at random from their galley rack in the Museum's store.

[This shot was taken in too much haste, in hurried circumstances. Some of these individual items will be photographed again.]

In the galley on the left, there are a number of photoengravings, a wooden poster-letter, some stereotypes and a brass oval containing the letters A and H. [Is this A H or around the other way, H A?] One of the photoengravings is a halftone (in other words, an engraving of a continuous tone photograph).

Above that galley are the edges of two other galleys. In the top one, you can see just the edge of a photoengraving, silvery looking. Interesting to note that it is in Arabic.

On the right side of the picture, the top galley carries some 72 point type. It looks jumbled, but it is a typesetting that was not tied up: possibly held with rubber bands, but they never last. With repeated handling and moving regrettably a number of our standing jobs have fallen over. One of our tasks is to put them back together, where that is possible, and tie them up properly with page cord.

The lower right galley carries what looks like a small fount of handset type (correctly tied up!), some spilled type (shiny), some Ludlow slugs, a bundle of reglets (wooden spacing strips), and a pair of special curved spacing blocks. These are used for setting lines at an angle.

These items, ragged as they may be, are perhaps one thousandth part of the collection of similar items. The majority are in good condition. Most of the typeset jobs can still be printed from.

The real problem is that the majority will be discarded or scrapped if the Museum cannot receive some support for storage costs while waiting for its newly starting programs to bring in some cashflow.