Font

You are in luck! I can probably tell you everything that is known about this face.

It was cast by BB&S in Chicago but does not appear in any of their catalogs or promotional materials. The name of this face is Buster Brown and it was created for the exclusive use of the advertising agencies that produced advertising for Buster Brown Shoes in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century. It was not available for sale to printers. I have a rather large font of it and know of a handful of others that have it also. We all have the same size font, 12 pt., so that may have been the only size it was ever cast in.

It took many years to track this elusive face down.

A decade ago, I told my stepson and his fiance that I would print their wedding invitations for them and they could choose any font that I had in my shop. Of almost 2,000 fonts to choose from, they chose Buster Brown!!!!! Printed in purple ink no less. As bizarre as that sounds, they turned out fantastic and were certainly the only wedding invitations ever printed using that face.

Without doing a lot of digging, I can tell you that John Horn and Dave Peat also have fonts of this face. Who printed the piece that you have scanned????

Rick von Holdt
The Foolproof Press

Cathy,

Fort a little more on this typeface, go to the Press & Typeface Identification in this Discussion section and scroll way back to 18 May 09 and open What Typeface is this?

Rick

Oh my word…….you are the bomb Rick. Thank you so much for all that information. I would die to get my hands on some of that font. I’ll start the hunt.

I found this wonderful poem on ETSY. Ana Karina Luna is the printer/artist @ missclinepress.

Thanks again.
Cheers
Cathy