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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 3996058, member: 8267&quot;]The image looks like a chromolithograph. In the second half of the 19th century, methods of transfer and offset lithography were developed that allowed colored images to be printed on metal, and were widely used for packaging and advertising tins.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;With the wide spread use of chromolithography the importance of packaging and labels increased. Lithographic printing of tin cans was presenting unnecessary technical difficulties. Non-porous metals simply didn’t absorb the ink. Sheet metal and stone printing surfaces also offered a can full of flexibility challenges. By 1850 transfer-printing methods were being invented. During these processes a reversed image was printed onto thin paper and then transferred onto sheet metal under great pressure. The paper was then soaked off which left the printed images on the tin plate.</p><p>Robert Barclay, an Englishman, invented offset lithographic printing on tin in 1875. His process started off with an image drawn on a stone and then inked. A nonabsorbent cardboard impression cylinder then picked up this image. From there it’s immediately transferred to a sheet of metal.On a later stage Barclay started using a rubber-coated cylinder to fix the image to the metal.&quot;</p><p><a href="http://havingalookathistoryofgraphicdesign.blogspot.com/2012/04/design-language-of-chromolithography.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://havingalookathistoryofgraphicdesign.blogspot.com/2012/04/design-language-of-chromolithography.html" rel="nofollow">http://havingalookathistoryofgraphicdesign.blogspot.com/2012/04/design-language-of-chromolithography.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.ebth.com/items/8219440-vintage-chromolithograph-print-on-metal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ebth.com/items/8219440-vintage-chromolithograph-print-on-metal" rel="nofollow">https://www.ebth.com/items/8219440-vintage-chromolithograph-print-on-metal</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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