Unusual Spacing Letterpress
CIRCULAR or ANGLE/ANGLED, quads or spacing.
Regarding, *e-lana,s* ???, request for info/help, I post on open forum, because there is a good chance, that one of your Countrymen will be interested enough to give you the answer, Chapter, Verse & Paragraph!!!
My humble efforts follow thus:- possibly, Angle(d) quads could be seen as, *A* the type that would be used on Litho/Continuous Stationery, machine equipped with a Letterpress attachment to overprint,? in/on the run, whereby a non recurring item, (for example figures changed at ever 1.000 impressions) rather than a new plate @ every 1,001 impressions, these would be in the form of a wedge between every individual figure/letter to keep the characters in the correct attitude in rotary fashion.!!!
*B* In standard Monotype, (Here in U.K.) Palace Script Typeface, was/still is seen in 2 forms, probably, still available from our Mouldtype Type Foundry. (listed)?
This TYPE Cast on a completely ANGULAR Body, with small returns, at every front edge, so that they located together, but had to have a Beginning and an End quad, to bring the whole type matter back to square, to space out with standard square spacing, to lock up.???
BE AWARE!!!!There is still in circulation, (U.K. at Least) Palace Script, Produced By/For, Monotype Whereby the face to print and view was, traditionally angled, but reverted to a square body on the lower part, and could usually/only be spaced, by chopping a standard space, partly down, at the beginning of every first letter, to space out the line.
But the point is, THE LAST REMAINING MOULDS, to achieve this were Sent to South America, at least 35 years ago, there fore when, *Monotype* Palace Script is offered For Sale, be aware, New, Top up founts are not an option.!!!
One More, remote possibility, and just as an extra clue for your quest, (and as an example) when for instance it was required to print, invoice/bill/receipt, for Greek Restaurent, a Graceful Arch incorporating the name, it would be standard practice to curve, by hand, or around any suitable circumference object, 2 lengths of 3 point lead, inner arch, outer arch, smear with thick oil, position the name letters, between the 2 leads and pour, lead, (as angled spaces) via a small ladle, from the melting pot of the Monotype, Linotype, Ludlow or Elrod, and the same process, for the inner curvature and the outer curvature, to bring both back to square, for lock up???
If Molten lead was unavailable, it was also common practice, to substitute, the lead, for Paper Mache, between the letters in the curvature, it does/did go quite hard… . The same basic method could, equally well, be transcribed to the present, with Plaster of Paris or 2 pack epoxy resin, as angled spaces.
Possibly a little extra clue, herein, Maybe tempt/coax a post with some Facts, but if neither, Sincere Apologies.
I’ve done the hot lead trick like Mick says, the best was hot wax, when the job was done simply put your curved line in a pot of water, bring to a boil and the wax floats to the top, your type comes nice and clean.
Dick, Thank you for your corroboration, the combined effort(s) may be regarded, as useful/informative and any royalties may have to be split 60/40??? … 40% would probably buy a lot of Goat Fodder, mention my name at *Onion Creek Ranch*, out of Tennessee. TX, Next Order?? … Best Mick.!!!
someone we know sent you a video of my shop, a kluge, windmill and a golding running, and a linotype. did you get it??
Dick, yes Received, understood and appreciated, the appropriate thank you will be on the way, as soon as I get my act together.!! . . I sort of understand, about air time and on line computor capacity, which governs transmission time, If Alex Barnes is your man, looks good, better than a lot I have seen thus far, just one little point, if you ever go for an action replay, I certainly would like to see, and I am sure others within the trade, still, (like Rag time Comps and Minders) and new ones yet to discover the intracasies of the Linotype Matrix escapement mechanism??
I appreciate that it is well hidden, and not easy to film, I liken it to *John Harrison,s* escapement Mechanisms in his *H*1 *H*2 etc time pieces. . . JOHN HARRISON, who solved the time and Longitude problem, whom I see as ranking alongside, Ottmar Merganthaler, and Tolbert Lanston??
I have been fortunate to see both, A battery of 27 Linos/Intertypes, in the News Wing where I completed my apprenticeship, and *John Harrisons,s* H2 through to H4, in our Greenwich Observatory, London, But it is not easy to describe in words, without visual back up, the Lino system?? . . Apologies Mick