Furnival Express Treadle Platen

Description

The Furnival company was based at Reddish, once an outlying area of Manchester. They built several different types of printing press including platens, cylinders and lithographic presses. This particular press was used in the Distillers Press of NCAD where students would use it to learn the craft of letterpress printing.

Object Name(s): treadle presses

Object Category: PRINTING MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT

Production date: c. 1890s/1900s

Materials: metal
Material Part: body

Provenance Summary: Donated by The Distillers Press, 2022.

Credit Line: National Print Museum, Dublin