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This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. --------------- Professor Eric Kindel of the Typography Department here at the University of University says: “If this is indeed a metal plate for printing, it may be a plate for an offset lithographic press. In these instances, the image/ink on the plate is first ‘offset’ onto a (usually rubber) ‘blanket’; from the blanket, the image/ink is then printed onto paper. Thus, the image is ‘right-reading’ on the metal plate, reversed on the blanket, and then right-reading again on the paper. // So, just a guess, since the image doesn’t look much like a typical plate for offset lithography (they are usually zinc, thus silvery), but perhaps plates from the 60s looked this way (i.e. brownish) — though it’s also possible that some kind of preservative was put on the plate, or some discolouration has occurred. The object may need to be removed from the frame for closer inspection to make a more precise identification.” I can put you in touch with him off list if you’d like to get in touch. Best wishes, Ollie Dr Oliver Douglas Curator of MERL Collections, The Museum of English Rural Life University of Reading, Redlands Road, Reading, RG1 5EX t (direct): +44 (0) 118 378 8669 t (main): +44 (0) 118 378 8660 merl.reading.ac.uk/<https://merl.reading.ac.uk/> Follow on Academia.edu<http://reading.academia.edu/OliverDouglas> Follow on Twitter<https://twitter.com/OllieDouglas> [small secondary] From: Social History Curators Group email list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Townend, Ian Sent: 06 November 2018 16:21 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Printing plate This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. ------------------------------- The plate looks like an offset lithographic plate, in which case the image would be the right way round as it is reversed twice in the process of printing. https://www.britannica.com/art/printmaking#ref397241 Ian Townend Site Assistant, Museum store Wakefield Council Units 4 &5 Zeina Park Milner Way Ossett WF5 9JE email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Mobile 07887831441 Tel 01924 302509 (please use mobile rather than this number) www.wakefield.gov.uk<http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/> Find out what is happening behind-the-scenes with Wakefield Museum's Blog: http://wakefieldmuseumsandlibraries.blogspot.com/ From: Social History Curators Group email list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lowri Jones Sent: 06 November 2018 15:24 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Printing plate This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. ------------------------------- Afternoon all, I’m hoping someone has some knowledge of printing techniques that they can share! We recently inventoried our unaccessioned objects in the store, one of which we found on an early list described as ‘Metal printing plate for the cover of [a journal]’(see attached image). My very limited understanding of printing assumed that for this you would need the plate to have a reverse image, but the text on the plate is the right way round, so I’m not certain if it is was it says it is, or how it would have been used. It’s from 1966 or around then. Can anyone shed any light? 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