Rosbak Perforator For Sale

Anna Banana ran out of her supply of the dry-gummed paper she's used to produce her full color, perforated International Art Post (IAP) editions. A case-lot purchase is required, which would provide enough paper to keep her producing stamps well into her 80's. While she loves the product, the work/time involved in producing these editions takes her away from her creative work, and her ongoing search to find a home for her 45+ year archive of mail art works, publications and catalogues. 

In order to facilitate those objectives, something's got to give. At this time, it's her production of International Art Post artistamps.

We are saddened by this news! 

But artists, you can benefit from this. She is offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to acquire her 1917, Rosbak rotary pin-hole perforator:

• It's(electric) motorized; works like a hot damn    
• The base is cast iron, and working parts (perf wheels & shaft) are steel = HEAVY 
•  The feed table (shown in photo) and receiving tray on other side both fold down for storage or shipping

Ideal for the artistamp maker who wants to produce stamp-like, perforated editions as a business, create projects, make a variety of artistamps.

Contact her at <a_banana@uniserve.com> or (604)885-7156 or write her at:

Banana Productions, 3747 Hwy. 101, Roberts Creek, BC, Canada V0N 2W2

Asking $2,000 or best offer plus shipping (you arrange transport with shipper of choice).

Editor note: Sometimes you can get a good rate with freight shippers listed online.

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Aida's Musings

EF Higgins

S Lackner

A day deep in the Archive of Ginny Lloyd’s “Gina Lotta Post Artistamp Museum and Archive” was a real treat and a respite for me. Adding to bulging binders the newly submitted pages of these hybrid creations gave me a rare glimpse into this spin off of an established art form. Postage stamps have long been collectible for their design and artistry. They have the power to commemorate big events and personalities in a small format. These Artistamps, likewise are precious and collectable compositional gems, a tiny showcase of the “elements of design” which I can still visualize lining the upper borders of my seventh grade art class: line, form, color, direction, texture, value, unity…what was the eighth? Oh yes, repetition!

Topel

Having majored in design ( I used my subscription to Graphis magazine as a lifeline into the world of visual ideas while I raised a family and worked at an early career in fine art), I feel a strong connection to the graphic quality of the imagery. Various illustrative techniques are employed and shrinky-dinked down to a scale that we find all too familiar in a world where the Technicolor widescreen of old has deferred to the iphone screen…it IS a mad mad world after all. Collage, typography, kinetic art, graffiti, satire, order and chaos, the beautiful and horrific, it’s all there…in miniature. But, in the end, It is the the little holes that seal the deal!...Perfection is in the perforations.

Alexander and Natalie

Watts and Renee

Indeed, I met Ginny Lloyd over an antique perforator that she acquired with a grant from “Women Supporting the Arts”. I was able to finally toy with the thing after a lecture that Ginny gave at the Martin County Arts Council in Stuart, Florida. I made mincemeat of a Canadian five dollar bill and a gum wrapper as well.( I did not come as prepared as I should have but improvised with the contents of my purse). 

Darlene A

I encountered a link to a potent video on Ginny’s website. A woman demonstrates a perforation technique utilizing tiny, sharpened, hollow brass tubing, inserted like a needle into the sewing machine. I flashed back to my earliest sewing memories where I imagined myself driving along the paper templates which traced the stitch path; straight ways and into the curves, the exhilaration of acceleration!  To know I have the stuff to perforate my own artistamps in the women’s corner of the “Manroom” is empowering.

In Artistamps the perforations can be tidy boxes separating identical images or they can dissect a larger image at random angles. This rampant deconstruction, “any thing goes” mentality found amid the pages of the Gina Lotta Post Artistamp Museum keeps me turning pages with surprise and delight.

Caution, Artists at Play.

Ginny is working on the fifth volume of her Artistamps catalogue. They are also posted here on the museum’s website: http://artistampmuseum.blogspot.com/

Note: Images are of a few of Aida's favorites in the collection.