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A Printers' Ink Cupboard from the early 1900s

From the Ault & Wiborg Ink Company of Cincinnati, Ohio

Oak Wood

Height: 21-1/2 inches.  Width: 15 inches.  Depth: 5-1/4 inches.

Above:  Interior View

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Above:  Interior View

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Above:  Reverse Side of Door

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Above:  Top of Cabinet

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Above:  Reverse Side of Cabinet

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Above:  The Keyhole Escutchean and Knob

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Above: Cabinet Side

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Ault and Wiborg of Cincinnati, Ohio

...was the world's top producer of ink and lithographic supplies.

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The Ault and Wiborg Ink Company:

The Ault & Wiborg Company, was an leading manufacturer of printing inks and dyes and pigments, based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The company was founded in 1878,  by Levi Addison Ault, a French-Canadian from Ontario, Canada, and by Frank Bestow Wiborg, from Cleveland, Ohio, born into a family that emigrated to Ohio from Norway.  Frank Wiborg attended Chickering Institute, before becoming a salesman for Levi Ault, and then became Ault's business partner.

This ink and dye company had sales offices in Toronto, London, Buenos Aires, Shanghai, and Manila.

The company produces much ink for lithography and for letterpress printing.  Robert Hochstetter was a vice president with this company, who changed his name to Robert Hilton, because of World War I.

Ault and Wibor inks were hugely popular with print shop owners throughout the U. S. and abroad. Their inks were used for newspapers, magazines, sheet music, and posters, and were the state-of-the-art choice for any graphic art professional.

Many leading artists of this era created advertisements for this ink company, including an 1896 advertising poster by Toulouse-Lautrec, and Art Nouveau print ads by Will Bradley, E. McKnight Kauffer, and T. M. Cleland. Many of these landmark Ault Wiborg ads appeared in the Inland Printer magazine.

This ink company was the premier American ink company to provide ink to the fine press printers of the Arts-and-Crafts era in American print making.

In 1920  Ault & Wiborg sold their  dye factories in St. Bernard and Norwood to Ciba, Geigy and Sandoz of Switzerland.  The new dye company became the Cincinnati Chemical Works.  In 1928, Aul sold this ink business to the International Printing Ink Corp, which becam Interchemical Corp.

Today, Ault is considered the "Father of Cincinnati Parks."  He donated the land that became Ault Park.

This Ault and Wiborg Ink Cupboard:

This ink cupboard is made of oak wood, and is in its original surface, in very nice condition.  The text is painted on the front panel in red blackletter typography. The cupboard is fastened together with its original round nails.  The cupboard has its original key hole escuthceon and hinges. There is no key.

 The porcelain knob may be a replacement, as this knob seem bright and un-aged, although there are no other signs of a replaced knob. The back of the cabinet is its original wood, which is an early type of plywood.  The front panel has a vertical crack through the length of the panel, running through the letter "n" in the word "inks", and also has 2 cracks through part of the lenght of that panel.

I purchased this cupboard from an antiques dealer here in Pennsylvania.

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Offered by:  Lee Jay Stoltzfus - Your Family Heirlooms

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. U.S.A.

27 Lititz Run Road.   Lititz, PA 17543

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