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Author’s posts: Ostap Verbytskyi

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A Tool Worn on One Side
The binder held it at an angle, and it shows a century later.
A Stone with the Drawing Still on It
A slab never prepared for the next job, so the image stayed.
A Sheet with Two Watermarks at Once
Paper from two different batches, joined in the mill itself.
A Cyrillic Fount with a Double Supply of «о»
The commonest letter had its own extra box.
A Binding with One Clasp Instead of Two
The second was lost long ago, and over centuries the block has warped.
A Block That Printed for Twenty Years
The wear at the edges shows how many times it went under the press.
The Type Mould Has Been Opened for Display
A hand mould with an interchangeable matrix: one mould for every letter of a size.
A Plaster Cast Taken in 1916
An object the museum shows without commentary and without lighting.
A Travel Permit Issued for Two Months
The document that limited the very journey which produced the degree.
A Letter Finished in the Margins of a Railway Timetable
The paper ran out, and the ending was written wherever there was space.

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