Featured Printing block - almost too good to be real

Is this legit, or ...? I found it today in a charity thrift and the guy's moustache was too good to pass it by. My little photo software program let me reverse the image and flip it so we can easily read it. It's pretty funny - funny enough to make me wonder if it's real.

 

Size? There are a number of advertisement photos on Google......... https://www.icollector.com/Collecti...zine-Cover-dated-November-1935-image_i9568407

 

what is the printing block made of?

 

Don't care if it is real I just love it.

 

That is a "real" treasure...so detailed.
But you will have to show the sides/bottom and measurements, etc., to tell if it's that "real".

 

Looks like this Phineas Pinchbeck is popular with the steampunk crowd, and with some who used it in their crafting. I've found several sites that claim they stamped the image into their projects, but no image of what the face of the stamp itself looks like. So I don't know if that's what you have.

http://theartisticstampercreativeteam.blogspot.com/2012/10/happy-halloween-by-emma.html

https://www.flickr.com/photos/thekathrynwheel/11233597245

 

Is this a linoleum print block? Does it have a wood backing?

 

What a fun cool thing! I like it no matter it's age!
Leslie

 

If it's metal, I would guess zinc and from a linotype machine.

 

@evelyb30 THAT is SO COOL and hysterical!!! LOVE, LOVE it!!!!!! Put it up to sell and you won't have it for long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

It's zinc nailed to a wooden base, about 5 15/18 x 3 3/4 x 7/8 inch.

 

Wow that is cool.

 

The image is all over the place - posters, greeting cards, mirrors, cushions - but no one says anything about origins. As Fig says: seems to be a steampunk thing.

This is also interesting (but irrelevant):
http://theartisticstampercreativete...9/phineas-pinchbecks-time-machine-oil-by.html

 

@evelyb30 , I am pretty sure I have seen that in TRADER JOE'S market adds before ..... if not, I know I have seen it some place , cups, t-shirt.......

 

Come to think, I may have too. I have a hunch this isn't an old image as in 19th century. It might be something out of the 60s or even later if someone got creative.

There's even a rubber stamp of the image on this UK site - it's the one the steampunker used to make the lantern.

https://theartisticstamper.com/stea...hbeck-cut-out-and-mounted-on-cling-cushioning

 

This one says they took the Artistic Stamper stamp, stamped on copper then etched it.
https://cain81art.blogspot.com/2017/03/phineas-pinchbeck-etched-on-copper.html

 

OK ... no idea. The Pinchbeck name along is enough to make you go Hmmmm.

 

It may be an invention of the people at Artistic Stamper. It's certainly used there a lot.

 

thanks, not surprising, it looks rather new to me, perhaps circa 2000s? The zinc plate looks so very "clean". I think the process of etching has probably changed with the times and this is a newer, cleaner result. It's very cool looking!

 

It's certainly possible. I'll get it listed pretty soon. Someone's going to want it.