Any Yankee Card Presses still in existence?

It’s great to read that Charles Willcox executes ‘withn eatness’…

The only one I know of is in private hands in Connecticut and in pieces last I heard. It’s an ingenious piece of work, though — probably one of the first little tabletop jobbers, though in the form of an acorn-frame hand press with semi-automatic feeding, inking, and delivery. I found the patent drawings online. It showed a belt-driven mechanism, which had been converted to gear driven in the surviving example. It used a simple elbow toggle based on the patent of John Wells of 1818, and was invented by Samuel Orcutt of Boston about 1840.

Bob

Thank you for this information - I have seen this press proudly boasted about in a number of publications from the 1840s and am interested in learning more about it. I had also not noticed the “withn eatness” error which has made me laugh all day.

The original ad can be found here in (un-resized) clarity https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t39z9hc2k;view=1up...

Thank you again -