{"id":2380,"date":"2017-04-10T11:22:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T18:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelawlers.com\/Blognosticator\/?p=2380"},"modified":"2017-04-12T08:29:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:29:12","slug":"the-poster-paster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelawlers.com\/Blognosticator\/?p=2380","title":{"rendered":"The Poster-Paster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In my collection of books related to printing and publishing is a delightful edition from Dover of line art engravings from the 19th and early 20th centuries.<\/p>\n

I wrote about reproducing these illustrations in a series of blogs I wrote in January and February of this year. They are surprisingly challenging to reproduce with digital technologies. I use that book occasionally as a source of early graphic arts illustrations.<\/p>\n

Today, while out on a journey to buy some chain lubricant for my bicycle, I encountered a 19th century event here in Munich. I passed a man putting up advertising posters using a long-handled brush with paste on it. First he brushed the paste on the wall, then he applied a poster, then followed by painting paste on the front surface of the poster with his brush.<\/p>\n

I suppose that the paste works its way through the poster and helps to hold it in place when the paste dries.<\/p>\n

I have never seen this done before. It was amusing to me, as one of my favorite engravings is of a poster-paster putting up a poster by this technique.<\/p>\n

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What made it even more amusing was that as the man worked, the wind picked up a couple of the posters he was hanging, and they blew down the street. The poster-paster\u2019s assistant took chase and brought them back. The illustration above, drawn in 1836 by British cartoonist Robert Seymour, came to mind.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s poster-pasting experience was an eye-opener for me. Techniques used in previous centuries are still at work today.<\/p>\n

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Above, the poster-paster with his long-handled brush applies white paste to the wall, then to the posters after he has applied them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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