130 Years

Hamilton Wood Type Museum · 2010 · Letterpress

A commemorative letterpress poster celebrating 130 years of the Hamilton Manufacturing Company, 1880 to 2010, produced in 2010 by the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. The sheet stacks traditional wood type and decorative border cuts into a Victorian broadside: "130 YEARS" crowning the composition, "HAMILTON 1880-2010" set large in warm brown, and the company's old maxim "Experience Is Acquired Not Manufactured" locked into an ornamental frame above "TWO RIVERS" and the Hamilton H. Printed by hand on the museum floor, signed and dated 2010, and pulled during a Rule29 visit to the shop.

Experience is acquired, not manufactured.Hamilton Wood Type Museum

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