Melbourne Museum of Printing
Australia's working and teaching museum of typography and printing located at Footscray, Victoria. Specialising in retention of traditional printing, both the equipment and the knowledge.
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Enlarged Picture from the Museum's GALLERY OF STEREOTYPES

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This stereotype of a business form would have been made to permit printing of a greater number of copies than would be possible from the original typesetting. It is also likely that two copies of the form (at least) would be printed on the one page, requiring multiple stereotype plates to be made.

The original from which the stereotype was moulded would have been made up from handset type and pieces of brass rule, as well, of course, as copious quantities of spacing material.

This picture shows the block as a coppery colour. This is not accurate, but due to poor lighting. It is a dull grey colour.

This proof of the stereotype was made in the Museum's Access Studio where artists, writers and other interested persons may print anything they wish by traditional methods. Researchers may use the studio to print from typeset material they are researching.

For those not used to it, the currency symbol is the pound sign formerly used in Australia (and of course still in use in the UK). The money area is divided into three columns, for pounds, shillings and pence.

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