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Times PrintingPrinterrs and BookbindersEurekaCaliforniaEstablished 1854, prior to the incorporation of the town, later to be thecity, of Eureka. As of 2008 it was under the fourth generation of familyownership. Although they are no longer doing binding they remain sucsessfulprinters.Below are some images of a machine used by the Times Printing  bookbinders,probably, as a case smoothing machine.  The machine was made by McFarlane Ltd.of Glasgow. The ABM has no other information about this firm. It is possiblethat this machine was intended for some other purpose as the rollers arewooden and to light duty to serve as a signature rolling machine  and the fewimages we have of case rolling machines tend to be less elaborate  almost homemade.![_caseroller8.jpg][1]![_caseroller5.jpg][2]![caseroller1.jpg][3]![caseroller3.jpg][4]![_caseroller6.jpg][5] [1]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1146/_caseroller8.jpg (_caseroller8.jpg) [2]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1146/_caseroller5.jpg (_caseroller5.jpg) [3]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1146/caseroller1.jpg (caseroller1.jpg) [4]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1146/caseroller3.jpg (caseroller3.jpg) [5]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1146/_caseroller6.jpg (_caseroller6.jpg)

(W. R.) Dixon & ( ___ ) SmithBookbinders80 N. First  (1848)St Louis.Missouri1.1. A Directory of the St. Louis Book and Printing Trades to 1850, by DavidKaser, The New York Public Library,1961, pg.20

National Text-Book CompanyBookbinder, PublisherReading Berks CountyPennsylvania Organized in 1909  for the printing, publishing and binding of text booksMorton Montgomery’s _History of Berks County, Pennsylvania_, 1909 edition, pp.170-185.

 ![BrownSon.jpg][1] Image collection of ABM 00252 prov. TJ. [1]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/505/BrownSon.jpg (Brown Son)

![dragonfly.circa2001.jpg][1]Dragonfly DesignBookbinder image courtesy: Vernon Wiering, Wiering Books, Grand Rapids, Michigan.  [1]: /media/attachments/bbdir_entry/1489/dragonfly.circa2001.jpg (dragonfly.circa2001.jpg)