Rail Press
Rail presses were simple cast-iron toys, sold through novelty dealers for about one dollar. They took full-size or, later, half-length printer's type. Rail presses were produced in large numbers and variety between about 1880 and 1900, when they began to give way to presses made for rubber type. The rail-press makers are usually unknown.
excerpted from "Printing Presses in the Graphic Arts Collection - Printing, Embossing, Stamping And Duplicating Devices" by Elizabeth M. Harris, 1996
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