Antique rare Alphabet 44pcs - 5.20" wood printing blocks Letterpress wooden type

Description

Antique rare set of letterpress wood type characters  5.20 inch
This antique set is coming from an old letterpress shop at Paris in France.
We think, that the letters should probably be handcarved and will make an exceptionnel addition to every collection or for a museum.
There are 44 pieces in this set, e
ach character is 13,2 cm (5.20 inch) tall.
woodtype #228
One E and one T are broken, and some letters have had wood worms, but they are no longer active, but the holes are still there.
You will see, what you get on the close-up photos.
If you need more pictures, please let me know your email address.
Please be sure, that a careful packaging will be done for the characters, so nothing will hurt the characters on transport.
Please check also our other auctions, we have some more characters for sale, as we are parting from some printing blocks of our collection.
Shipping will be from Germany to the US for US$ 100. If you have any other shipping destination than the USA, please contact me for shipping costs. - A lot of european countries are only US$ 40 for shipping.
All item(s) are sold "as is" unless stipulated otherwise.  I will combine shipping for multiple item winners to help reduce costs.
If you have any questions, please contact us prior to bidding, no returns are accepted.