Hello

The victoria and the red ball

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Hi Steph,

The Victoria is an amazing press. And the one in your photos is one of the larger models. Do you have photos of the other presses you are considering buying?

Brad.

Is that Victoria marked Victoria RS Dresden or Victoria RW Heidenau?
My four-roller Vic #3424 is probably the same size (16x21 platen) but slightly different. Mine has a clutched flywheel, with a lever at left knee to engage, and a lever for left hand to throw off (would have worked with a missing hanging safety guard). Is your press direct drive?
The Vic and the Heidelberg are a perfect combination of platens for a wide variety of work.

Thanks for your interests
I know one thing about the victoria it seems to have a clutch flywheel lever, but need to be attached.
Waiting for the victoria delivery, i don’t have more picts or informations.
The others presses than i’m waiting delivery too are a voirin, Pedal platen press, and a minerve pedal platen press built close to paris in 1900’s, 10’s, the same conception than the voirin picts 4 and 5.
Here’s the picts, sorry for the bad resolution, or bad vue, but it’s all what i got, the picts comes from the sellers…!
I saved the minerve press from the wrecking yard trash, so i’m very happy to preserve this press, in the same trash lot i saved this machine, but don’t know what is it…pict 1
I plan to buy this one too, but can’t identified it, seems to be a C&P but not sure, no inscription or a tag on the Picts 2 and 3, help needed to identify this press, i don’t have more picts.
Thanks from steph

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Pict 1 is an offset lithographic press. Chute delivery would put it in the duplicator class.
I can’t make out the name but there was a Rotaprint 14x20 imported from Europe to the US as competition to the ATF Chief 20 (late ’50s, early ’60s), might be an earlier model of that.

So many toys!!!