Historic Richmond Town: 441 Clarke Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10306.
Website: “This printing press was previously identified as a Stansbury press, ca. 1820, originally from Schoharie, New York. In 2013 it was tentatively re-attributed by printing technology historian Bob Oldham as the work of George Clymer, ca. 1808-1809. If that attribution is correct, this may be the only surviving example of the trials Clymer made of different impression mechanisms before he settled, in 1813, on the design of the Columbian hand press.
The press was acquired by the Staten Island Historical Society from collector George Simmons in 1960. It had been found in a barn in upstate New York and was believed to have been used in the early 19th century for printing the “American Herald” newspaper of Schoharie, New York.”
Website: The location is described as: “It displays a rare early printing press, one of the treasures of Historic Richmond Town’s artifact collection.”
