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Smashed Ludlow Machines

Author:
Stuart Jackson

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Date Posted: 06:08:10 04/29/03 Tue

Does anyone still use Ludlow machines? How should one go about selling one? Here is a sad story.

My youngest brother recently smashed two of these machines to bits; as unsued equipment he was sick of paying inventory taxes on them.

They had been in our family rubberstamp business for many many years. Three generations of our family stood at before these giants and cast type from hot lead, my grandfather, my father, and even myself.

The company still has the many fonts of brass molds/punches for casting the type. If I do not find a buyer who wants to buy and use these fonts, my business minded brother will soon be selling them by the pound as scrap brass. Seems a pity. What to do?

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Subject	Author	Date
Try Advertising in Classifieds	Dave Hughes	09:21:28 04/29/03 Tue

Ludlow matrices	*No name*	21:35:06 10/24/03 Fri