SMECO Printing presses

SMECO - Star press

Children's tin-plate rotary press for rubber type, made by the Superior Marking Equipment Company, Chicago, mid-20th century. Height 6, width 10-1/2, length 16. The Superior Marking Equipment Company, or SMECO, has made a series of lightweight children's presses as by-products to its line in office stamps and markers.

excerpted from "Printing Presses in the Graphic Arts Collection - Printing, Embossing, Stamping And Duplicating Devices" by Elizabeth M. Harris, 1996

While these presses don't thrill me the way a platen press does (yes, I know that sounds stupid), they're still interesting if only for the variety - there were quite a few toy companies making these presses back in the day, and one or two manufacturers still selling this kind of thing.

 

  • updated: June 30, 2003
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