Ebes-Douwma Antique Prints and Maps in Cheltenham, Victoria | Local business
Ebes-Douwma Antique Prints and Maps
Locality: Cheltenham, Victoria
Phone: +61 419 329 886
Address: 11-15 Christensen Street, Cheltenham. 3192 Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
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24.01.2022 When I bought the magnificent 1830 Columbian Eagle printing press at an auction in Adelaide about 30 years ago, I also stumbled on a large number of Movie Posters from the 50’s and 60’s that were lithographed in Sydney. They advertised some blockbuster movies in theatres all over Australia and some quite forgettable ones. But the posters a brilliant. Some great collectables and some are interesting wallpaper. Depends on your taste. Some are rare and others came in multiples. From Bardot to Churchill and the Carry on gang to Sci Fi. Hundreds of different films... Available whole sale only by Appointment. 0419 329 886. Hank Ebes.
23.01.2022 The first of the so called FIRST FLEET BOOKS were published in England by Governor Arthur Phillip, Surgeon John White ,David Collins and John Hunter. They featured the earliest flora and fauna as well as engravings of the landscape, aboriginal population , images of their voyage and views of Sydney and Tasmania dating back as early as 1789. Hundreds of these original hand coloured engravings are available whole sale and by Appointment only on 0419 329 886. Hank Ebes.
07.01.2022 When I was a crop duster in the Victorian countryside of Australia I relished my visits to the local printing offices of the towns I was staying in when the inclement weather prohibited me from flying a few feet off the crops killing bugs or weeds. The local printers were always a wealth of knowledge about the history of the area and the people who lived there , and like me they never threw away anything they might need after a nuclear war. Like a hand operated printing pres...s or two and dozens of type faces in metal and wood just in case all electricity failed... Then one day I was offered all the old stuff from one country press in Rutherglen where time had stood still , that changed over to offset printing in a larger town and so I bought the building as well and that started a decade or more of collecting antique printing equipment from dozens of shops in and around Victoria in the 60’s. I still live with them. Majestic , beautiful , heavy hand operated machines dating back to the early 1800’s when the Earl of Stanhope invented the first iron press in 1798 , a vast improvement on the old wooden presses that changed little since Gutenberg invented it in 1450. Machines we owe a big debt to for educating the masses. See more
03.01.2022 The earliest type of printing was Intaglio, rubbing ink into the grooves of an engraved or etched plate and running it with a sheet of paper on top between two metal rollers to copy the image. In the late 18th century a chemical process allowed Senefelder from Solnhofen , Germany, to copy music sheets from a litho stone drawn upon with crayon , and inked with a roller after the stone was wiped with water. Lithography was born! The third method was Letterpress printing also in...vented in Germany by Gutenberg using movable individual letters made of lead , tin and antimony . Thousands of letters were cast for every type face in fonts and kept in type cases as required. Stanhope relinquished a patent on his press and in the early 1900’s dozens of metal presses were created such as the Columbian by Clymer with the bold Eagle on top as a counterweight and the so called Albion presses invented by Cope. They were embellished with artistic designs because printing was then an Art form that became a trade with Offset printing and is now a science produced by computers that can print the spoken word literally as fast as it can be dictated in any style , type or language.This post will be printed in a hard copy book for my library as soon as I have posted enough sentiment to fill 450 pages and I order it from the printer in Amsterdam using Facebook for the text and FedEx to deliver it in less than a week from order. Still boggles my mind when I leaf through an incunable book from 1495 knowing how it was created then from the relics of the past in my library.....Thank you Mr. Gutenberg. See more
03.01.2022 When I took over the Australian Print Gallery from fellow Dutchman Robert Douwma in 1979/80 I fell in love with a couple of birds , illustrated in his catalogue , by John Gould that hadn’t been sold . One of them was the original art work by Gould of two hummingbirds with annotations in pencil from the series he produced and the other the hand coloured lithograph. There are slight differences between the two images where he used herring scales with gold to colour their crowns and of course the printing process reversed their original positions. That was the beginning of a long association with the famous John Gould , the Bird Man.
