Vintage Rubber Stamp Rack with Stamps, Desk Model

A desktop rack holding a row of old office hand stamps. Two cross rails between shaped end panels carry nine stamps with rounded, bulb-style handles, four on the upper rail and five on the lower, and a flat ink pad sits on the base at the front. Hand stamps with rubber faces became common office tools in the late nineteenth century, and racks like this stood on desks in banks, post offices, shipping offices and libraries well into the late twentieth century for dates, receipts and approval mark…

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