Printers' Devices Record

38 x 50 mm. © Silverado Press	Printer/Publisher: Silverado Press. Strouse, Norman H.
	Country: Michigan (U.S.) New York (U.S.)	City: Birmingham New York	Date: 1950
	Keywords: trees, grapes, vinyards, mountains
Mottoes, Text:
Names, Initials: The Silverado Press
Device Designer:
Device Reference: Weygand, J.L. Collection of pressmarks p. 59 Go to Page: 58 60
Usage Period:
Notes: "While Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Osbourne honeymooned in Napa valley, California he made notes, in abandoned Silverado mine, for Silverado Squatters, and with his step-son toyed with a hand press. Because that valley and Stevenson are favorites of Norman Strouse, and because he has a step-son with whom he worked at a hand press, a name for his press came naturally. His mark depicts that locale: a winery, Mt. St. Helena and Silverado mine, and the huge oaks and eucalyptus of the valley." © James Lamar Weygand
Source: Weygand, James Lamar. A collection of pressmarks gathered from America's private presses and from others not so private. Nappanee, Ind., Private Press of the Indiana Kid, 1956.
Reference:
Location: University of Florida
URL: https://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/rarebook/devices/silverado.htm