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Bauer’s view of Berthold up until about 1927

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Berlin foundries, part 3

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Unger versus Decker

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Provenance/Rights: Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Andres Kilger (CC BY-NC-SA)

Thurneysser and the later privatization of Berlin’s first state-owned typefoundry

Posted on 4 December 2023 in: ,

The Haas Type Foundry up until about 1927

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Hand drawings for Berthold’s phototypesetting library

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Augsburg typefoundries

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J. D. Trennert & Sohn

Posted on 15 August 2023 in: , ,
1925 reproduction of an 1820 portrait of J. D. Trennert, from Friedrich Bauer’s Ursprung und Geschichte der Schriftgießerei J. D. Trennert & Sohn in Altona 1634–1925.

Making Neuland

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Notes on the origin of Akzidenz-Grotesk

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Fette Fraktur questions

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Depesi Types

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Sandcasting brass types for bookbinders

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Berthold steel types from Dornemann & Co.

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Berthold’s patented type designs, 1900–1907 and 1921–1931

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