Printing some red apple greeting cards with a tabletop printing press 🍎

We get a lot of inquiries if we have letterpress printed greeting cards available and we do! Here is our “You are the 🍎 [apple] of my eye” card.

This was printed in pantone red pepper oil base ink using a 3x5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press. The font is 30 point Stymie Bold Condensed and the electrotype of the apple was made 80-90 years ago and is from the Bill Gaylord Collection. 30 cards were printed in this press run.

We thought today, September 26th, was a good day to post this because on this day in 1774, John Chapman was born in Massachusetts. He was a nurseryman who planted a certain fruit tree across the Midwest. He is known by a different name in history as Johnny Appleseed.

You can order a card on our website or purchase one in our museum store!

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We get a lot of inquiries if we have letterpress printed greeting cards available and we do! Here is our “You are the 🍎 [apple] of my eye” card.

This was printed in pantone red pepper oil base ink using a 3x5 Kelsey Excelsior tabletop printing press. The font is 30 point Stymie Bold Condensed and the electrotype of the apple was made 80-90 years ago and is from the Bill Gaylord Collection. 30 cards were printed in this press run.

We thought today, September 26th, was a good day to post this because on this day in 1774, John Chapman was born in Massachusetts. He was a nurseryman who planted a certain fruit tree across the Midwest. He is known by a different name in history as Johnny Appleseed.

You can order a card on our website or purchase one in our museum store!

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my daily dose of dopamine has arrived! thank you sacramentians for the birth of this channel and the history museum!

[juanmanuelmezasanchez]

You are My friend as well, blessings from Veracruz México gracias

[danielzboy]

That's a beautiful print. Love the red!

[rarecoolitems]

I hope you do some holiday cards and prints

[ManOfRod]

I look forward to your videos everyday 🙌. Thank you for everything you all do.

[Johhanabe]

1600th like and i like apples also the color red is nice

[Homerq]

I need a mini printer like that. I think it would be neat to own one.

[shell]

I read today is Johnny Appleseed day :)

[natecus]

Maybe I’m weird, but I’d love a video of how the press and stamps are cleaned after the prints have been made