press name registration question
Dear Collective Wisdom, I’m curious if anyone can speak to experience registering a press name: I registered and sent prop cards well within the thirty-day window but that that window has closed and I haven’t heard anything and registration is still showing unconfirmed. I’m hoping the prop cards actually made it there! I’m hoping you’ll tell me I just need to be more patient! Thanks for any thoughts you have!
Press name registration at BriarPress is limited to the first recorded use of a name (by a private press?)
Budd Westreich ran a different press name list some decades back, and he just wanted to record the active private press printers then (lots of commercial letterpress printers also submitted). That’s when I learned there was a very respected printer using the same name many decades earlier than me (he even had a Goudy pressmark!). Then in an old directory of my city, I found another printer of the same name, just blocks from me 15 years before; thankfully their DBA (Doing Business As filing) had lapsed before I filed mine.
Also another commercial printer in another county of my state has the same name.