David Shields
@19cwt-obscura.bsky.social
Designer & typographer & archivist & professor & (accidentally?) historian. I’m author & designer of the monograph The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection: A History and Catalog published by UT Press.
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@19cwt.bsky.social
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@19cwt.bsky.social
Some noodling on the RISO w/ all variants of Wm H Page & Co’s Gothic Paneled — 1st shown in its 1874 _Specimen of Chromatic Wood Type…_ and patented on 3 March 1874 as US Design Patent 7,230.
http://www.woodtyperesearch.com/chromatic-gothic-paneled/
http://www.woodtyperesearch.com/chromatic-gothic-paneled/
July 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Some noodling on the RISO w/ all variants of Wm H Page & Co’s Gothic Paneled — 1st shown in its 1874 _Specimen of Chromatic Wood Type…_ and patented on 3 March 1874 as US Design Patent 7,230.
http://www.woodtyperesearch.com/chromatic-gothic-paneled/
http://www.woodtyperesearch.com/chromatic-gothic-paneled/