Antique Odd Fellows Copper Printing Block with Scull & Crossbones, Eye, Links iron utensils rack either clearly made of copper

either clearly made of copper or described as tinned copper

I first grabbed this lovely wooden box for its great shape and dovetailed corners

but his face seems positively human

and all the way up from his boot to the grip of the ink pen

The Lantz pottery was founded in 1949 by artists Ernst and Alma Lorenzen

Antique Odd Fellows Copper Printing Block with Scull & Crossbones, Eye, Links iron utensils rack either clearly made of copperI think this little antique printing block is super cool! It came from the archives of Mitchell C. Lilley (1819 1882), the Ohio based bookbinder and publisher of Masonic and Odd Fellows books who, in 1865, founded M. C. Lilley & Co, which would produce a whole line of military and fraternal swords, uniforms, accessories, and equipment. This copper printing block featuring scull and cross bones, encampment tent with all seeing eye, and FLT links was