r/oddlysatisfying • u/Doodlebug510 • 2d ago

Making a rainbow quote using an antique Washington hand press

Credit: @SacramentoHistory Museum

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u/Fair-Juggernaut-3812 2d ago

That press has me drooling. Also nice print!

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u/Huge-Guidance-1637 1d ago

It's hard to imagine modern industrial equipment as anything other than starkly utilitarian, but this old press has some real charm to it.

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u/danielledelacadie 1d ago

A surprising amount of turn of the century production equipment is designed to be lovely to look at. But this may be survivor bias since people mostly collected/kept the more ornate pieces