Object Record

Images

1 of 1977

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Metadata

Object ID #

2016.027.002

Object Name

Block, Printing

Title

Printer's Cut showing Kilsyth's First Disciples Church

Date

1927

Year Range from

1927

Year Range to

1940

Artist

Fleming, Roy Franklin

Made

R-B-W (Richardson, Bond & Wright)

Place of Origin

Owen Sound, Grey County

Description

Printing plate (printer's cut) of First Disciples Church, Kilsyth, 1927 (the upper right corner has an open book motif on a cross, suggesting that this image was published in a church-related booklet?). The caption at the bottom in reverse lettering is "FIRST / DISCIPLES CHURCH KILSYTH / 1858-1880". The artist, Roy F. Fleming, has his name included with the year 1927, at the lower right corner (would print out at the left). The illustration shows a log building with a covered doorway, two paned windows, and a chimney). This lead alloy printer's cut is still nailed on its wooden block. The top of the block has a beige paper shim still installed, which has received the imprint of another printing block in the collection (2016.027.003), so there is a faint fireplace scene.

Provenance

The artwork is dated 1927, and the item was made/used by C. A. Fleming at R-B-W (Richardson, Bond & Wright), a printing company in Owen Sound. The first Disciples church in Derby Township was a log church that operated from 1858-1880, then was replaced with a brick church building. The Flemings of the Kilsyth area were Church of Christ Disciples members in the 19th-century. The artist Roy Fleming also was a Disciples member.
The item last belonged to Ruth H. Larmour (neé Fleming) of Carleton Place, Ontario.

Collection

Printing & Bindery Equipment, 20th-c Collection

Material

Wood/Metal/Lead

Dimensions

H-2.5 W-12 L-8.8 cm

Found

Ontario

People

Fleming, Roy

Subjects

Printing blocks
Churches
Architectural drawings

Search Terms

Kilsyth
Derby Township

Function

An item of letterpress printing, a printing block that provides an illustration that would be locked up in a chase and be used to make multiple impressions of the image. It would be retained for re-use. They were called "printer's cuts". The metal part was affixed to a wooden block and given a paper shim to make it type-high. This printer's cut was made at Owen Sound and used by C. A. Fleming's R-B-W printing industry.