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This is only a guess, but they might be parts from a Kluge press feeder. The attached parts list has a few parts with the prefix AF, but I didn’t see your parts (however I may have missed them). Also, there may have been other models of Kluge presses which your parts came from. Or, of course, they might not be from a Kluge at all.

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Is your press a Kluge, or was there a Kluge press where you got your press from?

Never seen this parts on a Kluge

My press is a 10 x 15 chandler and price, late 1910s. But it did come from a shop with a proofing press but I don’t know what kind. There is another part on my press with an AF, it’s bolted onto the throw off assembly but it doesn’t look like it would attach to this anywhere.

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Don’t know what it is but …… I’ve seen it somewhere and perhaps it is from a c & p with a Miller Feeder and just maybe AF stands for Automatic Feed….what do you guys think? Guess what, I found my old Miller Automatic Feeder Parts Book . Yup, there it is on page 32 it shows AF 812 as “throw off latch” and AF 732 as “throw off bell set collar”. Parts were for a 10 x 15 Miller Automatic Feeder. Back them it was common to see a C & P with Miller feeders as well as Kluge and Rice feeders. Over the years most of the Millers and many of the Rice feeders have been removed to convert the press back to hand feed. Perhaps your press is one of those. Bud

Bud, Thank you so much for solving this mystery for me! I’m embarrassed it took me so long to respond to you. Did they just not work very well, is that why they have been removed? Thanks again!

We ll, I’m glad I was able to shed some light on those parts.. I had a 10x15 c&p with a rice feeder back in the early 60’s, It was too much press for me at the time. I remember I sold it to some printer in Oakland who had a commercial shop, he was very much excited to get it…he loved the press…I couldn’t wait to get rid of it at the time. Wish I had it back now. There were many c&p set up with these feeders in the early days, but somewhere around 1919 Kluge started making the press and feeder as a complete machine. That must have killed the add-on feeder market. In answer to your question, I’m sure they worked very well for its’ time. But as they saw “printing is the mother of progress” Bud

We ll, I’m glad I was able to shed some light on those parts.. I had a 10x15 c&p with a rice feeder back in the early 60’s, It was too much press for me at the time. I remember I sold it to some printer in Oakland who had a commercial shop, he was very much excited to get it…he loved the press…I couldn’t wait to get rid of it at the time. Wish I had it back now. There were many c&p set up with these feeders in the early days, but somewhere around 1919 Kluge started making the press and feeder as a complete machine. That must have killed the add-on feeder market. In answer to your question, I’m sure they worked very well for its’ time. But as they saw “printing is the mother of progress” Bud

We ll, I’m glad I was able to shed some light on those parts.. I had a 10x15 c&p with a rice feeder back in the early 60’s, It was too much press for me at the time. I remember I sold it to some printer in Oakland who had a commercial shop, he was very much excited to get it…he loved the press…I couldn’t wait to get rid of it at the time. Wish I had it back now. There were many c&p set up with these feeders in the early days, but somewhere around 1919 Kluge started making the press and feeder as a complete machine. That must have killed the add-on feeder market. In answer to your question, I’m sure they worked very well for its’ time. But as they saw “printing is the mother of progress” Bud

I guess that is what happens when you hit the post comment button two times. Bud