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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Litho = stone... graphy = printing

The older form of lithography involved engraving in stone, that eventually progressed to metal plates, I think.

We need to take a journey with Mr. Peabody and Sherman in the WABAC machine, go back and check out the American Litho printing facilities... ask some questions, scrounge around in the printer's scrap...


And Ted, on that Type I Mantle the knob of the bat in the Yankee hat is in the bottom border of the box, in the Type II Mantle the curvature of the bottom of the knob can be seen, the knob is above that border.

I'm not a believer in the Plank broken plate idea, as you recall. I think the answer is with American Caramel, Philadelphia, loyalty, and the like. Still, someone published that idea, some folks read it and retained it, the printed word does have some power... whether what is printed is correct or not.