Antique Odd Fellows Copper Printing Block with Scull & Crossbones, Eye, Links iron utensils rack with no visible flaws

with no visible flaws

With their sweet faces

either clearly made of copper or described as tinned copper

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

and so often disappointed to pull them out of cases to find a large crack running down one side

Antique Odd Fellows Copper Printing Block with Scull & Crossbones, Eye, Links iron utensils rack with no visible flawsI 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