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Quoting from their website
“Pilcro and the letterpress [clothing] is inspired by the invention of the printing press. Intellectual, irreverent, always on point.”

So now you know :o)

Anthropologie is a hipster clothing store chain. One of their brands is “Pilcrow and the Letterpress” because it sounds cool. I wonder how many of the pompous little twits even know that pilcrow isn’t someone’s name (let alone what one might be)?

Ugh. I don’t think I’ve seen that one. I just always get annoyed having to filter out the items that are for that “letterpress” scrapbooking toy, or the jerks selling a single piece of wood type for $9.95 and up.

I am annoyed that there are people sell Broken up sets.
The other day I had to buy a border type at “3” different auctions. What good are they broken up. Neither is any useful separated.
Not sure about anyone else, but I tend to be willing to pay more as a “complete” “working” set of something.
Then someone selling Mixed matched Ludlow Matrix. Can’t use them for anything that way. Come on people use your head. Sell the whole drawer and get more.

I’ve told sellers that they would get higher prices if they sold their sets of larger wood type complete, instead of single pieces at $7.

Even small, but complete, sets of 6-7 inch wood type go for pretty solid sums on eBay, frequently in the mid hundreds, but it seems these idiots would rather sell their 45 pieces at $5-6 a piece (after eBay gets their cut) meaning 45 times the work for half the return.

Usually they send some poorly worded abuse back, amounting to “either buy something or mind your own business”.

The only thing worse than people selling individual characters are the people selling like 10 different faces of a single letter as a bundle.

Search for Letterpress Press etc, if you search to broad, you get a lot of unwanted stuff.

With the advancement of Websites like Etsy etc. instead of selling complete, most is broken up and sold as such shabby chic.

Thanks for the responses. I do know how to limit my searches to avoid this. Sometimes I want to see all categories. What I don’t understand is why anyone would name a clothing line Pilcro and the Letterpress and what if anything it related to. To me it makes as much sense as naming a line of furniture “Eddy and the refrigerator”

JF

Wait, aren’t they a band, John?

Anthropologie is what all the hip kids wear these days, John! Ha ha. $200+ for a shirt! Maybe it’s time you start a Golding clothing line…..

to all

Confession, I had never heard the word Pilcrow till I came across it here.

As to its origin, meaning a paragraph mark and looking like a backwards P, could it be that its origin is the P of paragraph, but needed to be turned around, like a crow which flies backwards to keep the dust out of the eyes; crows learned this in outback Australia.

As to the dust, a General Practitioner (family doctor) had been with the Flying Doctor service, had a spectacular picture of a dust storm on the wall of his rooms.

Alan.

Re Pilcrow(s) if one trawls the internet, keys in THE COUNTERPRESS re pilcrows, with a tiny effort can be found, “Monotype Mick” (me) casting Pilcrows, 2 sizes!! Struck by The Monotype Museum in London.>>>For 2 terrific Later Day, Letterpress, Printers, Designers, Typographers.>>>The Burger Belly and the Greasy hand are mine,!>>>the spiel between the shots, is not quite accurate, Their words not mine.>>>They (kindly) coined the phrase, Mono Mick.>>>

Never heard “Burger Belly” before, like it a lot, here in the States the burger belly is standard equipment, mostly all older printers have them.

Mick is obviously tryimng to be politically correct. I think that everyone knows that the common terminology is beer belly.

Rick

Dick/Rick thanks for reading me, but unfortunately it is a burger belly, I dont drink at all ever, the problem used to be our “lyons” individual fruit pies, nice but very sweet, which probably explains why the “Four and Twenty White Horses upon a red hill” are now down to NOT enough for four in hand.!!!>>>The aforementioned Fruit Pie(s) were also instrumental in getting the ONLY tea totaller thrown out of a/the Public House.???>>>The original MAIN Print Union (here) Was The T.A. (Typographical Association) which then became the N.G.A. (National Graphical Association),>>>Union Meetings were held NOT on the shop floor, but surprise surprise, in The Pub 50 yards away, which was usually boring, boring, so at one meeting I snuck out liberated a Fruit Pie and with several correct coins, nipped into the smaller back room, (which was devoid of Beer Belly,s And smoke clouds, I had already done my share,>>> protecting the rest by inhaling enough lead and print room chemical, fumes anyway!!!)>>>Consequently having detoured I put ELVIS,s “Promised Land” on!! cranked up the customer accessible volume, Got thrown out by the Land lord, (probably because I wasent lining his till) AND got a little coating from the F.O.C. because some body drew his attention to the fact that my absence was noted. >>>OR the absence of my contribution to the “Kitty” may have been a factor!!!>>>B****r it they would not subsidise my fruit pies, why would I subsidise the Beer Fund???>>>Ditchling Press Sussex,>>>U.K.>>>Circa, Early 1980,s.

Dick/Rick thanks for reading me, but unfortunately it is a burger belly, I dont drink at all ever, the problem used to be our “lyons” individual fruit pies, nice but very sweet, which probably explains why the “Four and Twenty White Horses upon a red hill” are now down to NOT enough for four in hand.!!!>>>The aforementioned Fruit Pie(s) were also instrumental in getting the ONLY tea totaller thrown out of a/the Public House.???>>>The original MAIN Print Union (here) Was The T.A. (Typographical Association) which then became the N.G.A. (National Graphical Association),>>>Union Meetings were held NOT on the shop floor, but surprise surprise, in The Pub 50 yards away, which was usually boring, boring, so at one meeting I snuck out liberated a Fruit Pie and with several correct coins, nipped into the smaller back room, (which was devoid of Beer Belly,s And smoke clouds, I had already done my share,>>> protecting the rest by inhaling enough lead and print room chemical, fumes anyway!!!)>>>Consequently having detoured I put ELVIS,s “Promised Land” on!! cranked up the customer accessible volume, Got thrown out by the Land lord, (probably because I wasent lining his till) AND got a little coating from the F.O.C. because some body drew his attention to the fact that my absence was noted. >>>OR the absence of my contribution to the “Kitty” may have been a factor!!!>>>B****r it they would not subsidise my fruit pies, why would I subsidise the Beer Fund???>>>Ditchling Press Sussex,>>>U.K.>>>Circa, Early 1980,s.