February 7th is National Rose Day, a subtle reminder to let people know that Valentine’s Day is a week away. In honor of today, Howard letterpress printed an electrotype (copy of a woodcut) from the Bill Gaylord Collection. Bill was a longtime docent at the Sacramento History Museum and was a collector of letterpress cuts. He also was the person who trained Howard in the print shop 24 years ago. We have a few electrotypes similar to this one in our print shop where there is a small mortised box on top of the image. We are not sure of its original purpose. #NationalRoseDay #roseday #rose #roses #SacHistoryMuseum #museum #letterpress #sacramento #printing