Category: Press and typeface identification
Later topic: Wood type like DeVinne
Earlier topic: Bremner platen press

Help me with Gothic!

  • afuchs2009
  • on 3 Feb 22 (19:30)
  • Updated 3 Feb 22 (19:30)

Hi, Looking for help to name this wood, 6 line gothic type. There are so many gothic variations and names and I’m hoping that with this proof someone can confidently say the name. The closest I’ve found is “6 line gothic condensed No.1 but it doesn’t show the entire typeface so I’m unsure about some proptions. No stamp on the A. Thanks for your kind feedback.

image: gothicexample6.jpg

gothicexample6.jpg

image: 6lineexample.jpg

6lineexample.jpg

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If you feel that it is a US face, I would put my money on Hamilton’s No. 4050, cut by Morgans & Wilcox, since that is a later cutting of the Page face, but Page did not cut a question mark for their Gothics, only for German faces.
Dave Greer