Perfect Old COPY Print Block Walter Baker & Co chocolate cup and made all the better

and made all the better by the pencil drawn clouds of trailing smoke

11 3/4" t x 7 1/4" w x 3 1/4" d and in good structural condition

4 3/8" long x 1 1/4" w x 1 7/8" tall

with no tears and only minor paint loss

Beale has signed and dated the pages

Perfect Old COPY Print Block Walter Baker & Co chocolate cup and made all the betterI pass by hundreds if not thousands of old printing blocks for every one that I purchase, but I'll never resist a great COPY block like this one. Beautiful object, perfect capital font for the word, and I love the resonance of "copy": copy referring to content, as in text, which the word "copy" itself is, and also as in copies, which the function of the stamp is to produce many of. The fact that it feels like a singular object makes for a nice tension