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Subject: VALUE OF LINOTYPES / INTERTYPES?

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BILL NAIRN

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Date Posted: 19:56:18 11/14/01 Wed
In reply to: Prewitt S 's message, "Do People Want Linotypes Any More?" on 09:50:57 06/06/01 Wed

Commercially, these machines now have little or no value -
in Wellington, New Zealand, I am aware of only one shop where "hot-metal" setting is still done - probably less than half a day weekly: for the manufacture of rubber stamps!
As arguably the most complex mechanical device made (the
Monotype Composition Caster a close second?), they do have a high intrinsic value in themselves. Working machines are found in only three locations in N.Z.: MoTaT Museum in
Auckland, Ferrymead Museum (Christchurch) and Bedplate Press here in Wellington (there are a handful of afficionados who have a Linotype machine in their garage for
mainly personal use and sentimental reasons - I am one of these with a Harris-Intertype, one of the last made in
England!)
Thomas Edison, the great American inventor of the 19th century, said Mergenthaler's Linotype machine was the
Eighth Wonder of the World - I think he was right!
BILL NAIRN

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