The original wood medallion measures approximately 3.5 cm in height, and has a rectangular piece of wood affixed with screws to the back, giving it an overall height of 5.4 cm.
One of a group of sixteen medallions of printers' marks originally commissioned for and installed in an exhibition room created during an expansion of the Pierpont Morgan Library in the late 1950s. The medallions were deinstalled during another renovation and one was lost.
Numbered "16" in pencil on the reverse.
Hand-carved wooden medallion with the monogram device of printer Richard Pynson; according to Adams, the Richard Pynson medallion adorned the South wall of the exhibition room, along with the medallions of William Caxton, The Spiral Press, Elzevier Press, and Bruce Rogers.