Surplus Sale, Poster Gothic Wood Type
Wood type for sale in the Letterpress Daily Store.
Archived entries for Hamilton Manufacturing Company
Specimen Sunday
Woodtype: Selective Emphasis for Fine Typography by Hamilton, 1960, page 18. Download (right click on link) a high resolution image.
Specimen Sunday
Woodtype: Selective Emphasis for Fine Typography by Hamilton, 1960, page 17. Download (right click on link) a high resolution image.
Specimen Sunday
Woodtype: Selective Emphasis for Fine Typography by Hamilton, 1960, page 16. Download (right click on link) a high resolution image.
Specimen Sunday
Woodtype: Selective Emphasis for Fine Typography by Hamilton, 1960, page 15. Download (right click on link) a high resolution image.
15 line Modified Gothic
Kelly and Shields suggest that Modified Gothic originated with Hamilton and made its first appearance as wood type in Hamilton’s New Designs in End Wood Type, from 1897.
I received this sort (a single block of type) — along with H, T, and M sorts from different faces — in a door prize raffle during the 2011 Wayzgoose at Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum. The prizes were generously donated by type and printing enthusiast extraordinaire, Dave Peat.
Specimen Sunday
Woodtype: Selective Emphasis for Fine Typography by Hamilton, 1960, page 14. Download (right click on link) a high resolution image.
Specimen Sunday
Woodtype: Selective Emphasis for Fine Typography by Hamilton, 1960, page 13. Download (right click on link) a high resolution image.
12 line Trenton
Called Trenton by Morgans & Wilcox and Hamilton (also No. 168), this modified/modulated Gothic, with its miniscule, Runic-like serifs made its first appearance as No. 157 in Wm. H. Page’s 1888 Specimens of Machine Cut Wood Type! David Shields corrected Rob Roy Kelly’s identification of Hamilton as the originator.
This scan is from a facsimile edition, printed by Pioneer Press of W. Va., Inc. The original is in the collection of Dave Peat.
Specimen Sunday
Woodtype: Selective Emphasis for Fine Typography by Hamilton, 1960, page 12. Download (right click on link) a high resolution image.
Specimen Sunday
Woodtype: Selective Emphasis for Fine Typography by Hamilton, 1960, page 11. Download (right click on link) a high resolution image.
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