Wood and Copper Printing Block

printing block

TOOLS - PRINTING
Ecuador, Galápagos
before 1943
wood; copper
overall: 3 x 3 3/4 x 7/8 in.

Wood and copper printing block from Around the World in the YACHT YANKEE (Dillon 1943) Note: image may also appear in R.A. Dillon’s articles published in the NORFOLK AND WESTERN MAGAZINE, Norfolk and Western Railway Company, Roanoke, Virginia. A portion of page 9 of this volume is glued to the block’s upper side. Image: “Landing a big tuna” (Around the World in the YACHT YANKEE (Dillon 1943:12)). Five men hoist a tuna into California fishing boat Belle of Portugal, January 1940. Overall: 3 x 3 3/4 x 7/8 in.

2010.11.373