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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 843918, member: 24274&quot;]<b>Here&#039;s what you&#039;ve got...</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Darryl, what you have is a transfer die. I&#039;ve got a couple myself,&nbsp; including one from the same seller. They are great paperweights but,&nbsp; alas, not meant for printing purposes. They are &quot;master dies&quot; used to&nbsp; transfer the image to a flat plate, usually steel or copper, which is&nbsp; then used to print from. That requires a siderographic press which&nbsp; applies tremendous pressure and rolls the transfer die back and forth&nbsp; until there&#039;s a solid impression on the other plate. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you print from your die the image will be reversed -- what you want&nbsp; is a flat plate with a mirror image. That makes a big difference if your&nbsp; image includes lettering. Also the impression on the transfer die is&nbsp; convex where you want it to be concave. So it holds the ink in exactly&nbsp; the opposite way you want for printing. Give it a try, though, I&#039;d be&nbsp; curious to see the effect.</p><p><br /></p><p>What you and I really need is a connection with a skilled siderographer&nbsp; with access to a press. I really like your image! I do own most of the&nbsp; ABN Portfolios and I&#039;ll see if it&#039;s in there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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