Rectangular, wood printing block. The image on the block is a scroll framing a man stanidng with ciagrette in hand while the smoke curles upwards. The stamp is done as a line drawing with thin border lines on his outfit and face. Just behind the man's back is a small, scrawled signature and on the bottom roll of the scroll are a couple of scribled words. Whether they are readable when the block is printed is not entirely clear. It could denote the idnetity of the man or some sort of logo.

Donated by John Damianos. The printing block was used in a linotype printing machine. Linotype presses allowed for the casting of entire lines to be printed at a time. Linotype printing was eventually succeeded by lithograph printing and computer typesetting during the 1960's and 1970's. This printing block was used by the Chicago-based, Greek Art Printing Company that was owned and operated by Aristotle Damianos. The Greek Art Printing Company was responsible for the printing of a wide range of materials, including wedding invitations, invoices, flyers, programs, letterhead, etc., for Greek businesses, organizations, institutions, and individuals in the Chicago area, and elsewhere.

There is a good chance that this block is the logo for some company.

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