ever seen this?

[Leatherman1998]

A stamping machine, Friday afternoon I was working in the hills at the house of a man who comes to our church, he is probably 80 something years old and used to do gun smithing and about everything else under the sun. In the 1980's he sold mason shoes, well so he bought a stamping machine with the intention of stamping pens with his business name. Friday he game me the machine, Never used, in mint condition. He paid less than $100 in the early 80s. I am going to see what I can use it in the shop for.

 

[Skie_M]

Those might use some pretty high pressure, to make their imprint ... it may actually crush a finished pen blank, unless you set it to just touch on the surface and leave ink, or something.

 

[edstreet]

That's an arbor press with a die cutter on it.

 

[Leatherman1998]

That's an arbor press with a die cutter on it.

Not an arbor press by any stretch Ed. That is a similar mechanism but that is where it stops. Not manufactured to be used like an arbor press at all.

 

[Rockytime]

It looks like a foil stamping machine for imprinting with gold foil. It has a heated platen and uses movable type and is used for personalizing books, photo albums, Bibles etc. Years ago I had a much larger machine to do that as well as foil embossing. Interesting machine.

 

[edstreet]

Not an arbor press by any stretch Ed. That is a similar mechanism but that is where it stops. Not manufactured to be used like an arbor press at all.

I stand corrected. A few things looked like an arbor press so I called it that. My bad and this for pointing it out to me.

 

[Leatherman1998]

You got it dead on Rocky, I was given some more documentation about it today, I don't plan on using it for pens but for cases and such it might work. Unless I was reading incorrectly I saw the exact same machine being sold for $2,700 online. Gold magic is the brand name.

 

[wob50]

I think rockytime is correct not a bad score... Some of the higher end ones are up there in price..

 

[Marko50]

Nice find!

 

[penmaker56]

Hot Stamping machine, Kingsley was the king of hot stamping , but went out of business in the '90's, You can still get type on eBay, and through Aamstamp, in LA, where most of the Kingsley employees went, you can also get the hot stamping foil through them if you do not see anything you like on eBay. It does put a lot of pressure on the article that is being stamped, it will crush the lid of a pen box, if stamping on the outside, unless you build a wood block to fit inside the box to take the pressure. They are built like the proverbial s**thouse, my Kingley from the '80's is still going strong.

 

[larrystephens]

I used to use and work on Linotype machines. The only last use for them was making slugs for stampers like this. If you find a linotype machine to go with it, I will help you make it work. They only weigh about two tons and take up an entire room.

 

[moke]

I operate a photographic studio that I bought. It was started in WWII. We had one of those that we imprinted our portraits or wedding albums with. It was larger than that one appears to be. As Penmaker said it is capable of great amounts of pressure. I always imprinted the albums myself as you could ruin them very easily and they were big $$$.
It also got very hot right above the press itself.....I burned myself more times that I care to count. That heating element was it's ultimate demise, it quit heating and we could not find parts.
I arrived at this studio in 1978, and it was old then, but that one looks different like it was adapted for another reason...most I ever saw had a "reel" holder on each side to hold either silver or gold foil tape, which was even when it died in the early 2000's was big money by the way.
I would think with the suggested insert or block into a pen box that it would work awesome to imprint pen boxes.....
Let us know if you make it work for you.