Category: Printer’s Drawer

One of the items that you will find in our printer’s drawer is a playing card. The back of the card is printed with “Wheeler and Steele”.  The Steele family lived across the street and a couple of doors up the hill from us when my family lived on Vine Street in Alamo.  My earliest… Continue reading Printer’s Drawer – Canasta Playing Cards

Printer’s drawers were originally used in the printing business to store the type that was used in the presses.  When printing technology changed most of the type was melted and repurposed for other things.  Many of the drawers from the type cabinets were sold to antique stores where they were sold as knick-knack shelves.  We… Continue reading Printer’s Drawer