2 Items from The Sign of The Stork, Private Press run by John Starkey, Barnet, Herts.

• Broadside, 2 colour printed and illustrated, “The Sign of The Stork, An Explanation”. &;

• A letterhead, multicoloured & illustrated. “16th June, 1969. Dear Mike, Thankyou for your horrible card – has your press gone rusty?…” Letter is to Mike Elliston, see provenance below. 

Provenance: Part of a collection of 1,500+ Private / Hobby Printing Press items I will be listing, once the personal collection of Mike Elliston. Mike was a name in the Private Printing Press movement from the 1970s to early 2010s. He took over the organisation of ‘It’s a Small World’, a cooperative annual ‘magazine’ containing single leaves on printing subjects by different hobby printers from all over the world, between 1996 & 2011.