The Silver Buckle Press collection includes an 1861 Washington Hoe, and an Albion handpress, a Vandercook 4T proof press, platen jobbers, simple proof presses, and two small card presses. We have approximately 125 fonts of foundry type and eighty-six complete fonts of wood type. The SBP has a fine assortment of ornamental type used for printing decorations and borders, and a good selection of cuts, engravings, and electrotypes. Our library of printing history materials includes many original specimen books.

In the last few years we have catalogued our holdings of printed material--both the archives of our own publications, and printing examples from other presses. These have been reformatted into archival storage boxes, and we have created a database of the material related to the Silver Buckle Press. Anyone interested in more information about our paper holdings may write to us at: sbp@library.wisc.edu