[monk]

JOHN, THANKS SO VERY MUCH sharing your history with us. it is always interesting to know the way a person has come up. to think now of 3 cents a letter ! the thought would send most of us into a convulsive state. but then, when you were doing your work then at 3 cents a letter, did you ever dream how the engraving art and profession would grow ? how things would become ? imagine, john, back then- telling your peers you had a vision that one day there would be a machine that could do your lettering, that could do your layout on paper for you . that this machine could do all this while you sat back and had a coffee ! john, they would have said you were nuts !
but thanks to folks like you who acquired a skill passed on to you by those before you, we must thank you. we're sure you have done much to pass the the torch to those who came up behind you. for people like you have made it possible for us to continue this art. thank you !