{"id":5926,"date":"2010-09-20T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T05:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=5926"},"modified":"2018-09-20T03:06:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T22:06:18","slug":"type-a-sizeable-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/type-a-sizeable-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Type&#8230; a sizeable collection."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/letterpress_type_assortment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5928\" title=\"letterpress_type_assortment\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/letterpress_type_assortment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/condensed_sans_wood_type.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5930\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/condensed_sans_wood_type.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/letterpress_type_styles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5931\" title=\"letterpress_type_styles\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/letterpress_type_styles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/more_wood_type.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5932\" title=\"more_wood_type\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/more_wood_type.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/lead_type.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5933\" title=\"lead_type\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/lead_type.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/wood_type_assortment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5934\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/wood_type_assortment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Showcard_proof_press.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5935\" title=\"Showcard_proof_press\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Showcard_proof_press.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg, Manitoba<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve spent the better part of the weekend (with invaluable help from Ev and Simon Statkewich\u2014thanks!) transporting a ton or so of letterpress display type, along with a number of proof presses and assorted letterpress paraphernalia (that I\u2019ve just purchased from colleague Susan McWatt FitzGerald) out to my place in the woods. (Sue, real type fiend, had acquired the entire contents of a letterpress showcard\/poster shop from a retired printer some years ago, with full intentions of setting up a viable printing operation in her garage&#8230; and that\u2019s where the materiel has languished until now. Her pending move to Newfoundland at the end of this month triggered her offer to sell).<\/p>\n<p>Fonts range in size from around 48 point (mostly lead in sizes under one inch) to about 7 inches in wood, with lots of interstitial sizes including some very condensed faces. Of the dozens of dusty type cases and racks (featuring a wide variety of serif, sans serif, and vintage display faces) most need cleaning and sorting\u2014much of the type was literally \u201cout of sorts\u201d in buckets, crates, boxes, and bags\u2026 so it appears that I\u2019ll have plenty of winter-evening activity in the months ahead. Truth be said, I <em>love<\/em> letterpress typography, and I can hardly wait to sort this all out, clean it all up, and start those presses rolling\u2014lots of poster and card ideas already percolating.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Images above: a sampling of the letterpress display type now in my posession; the proof presses range from about a small DIN A5 size to something like 2&#8242; x 3&#8242;; not shown\u2014assorted furniture, quoins, brayers, lots of leading, and hundreds of type-high printer\u2019s cuts and etched illustrations (weighing hundreds of pounds). An online search for the patent number exhibited on the larger press brought up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freepatentsonline.com\/1910986.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this PDF<\/a> from 1933.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>I\u2019ll post better photos of complete alphabets once I have the chance to clean and sort the type. <\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>As I\u2019m very keen to find out the specific names of the fonts I\u2019ve just acquired (all without documentation), I\u2019ll send anyone who can help me identify an actual font name and\/or fabricator\/origin a nice printers block (advert or editorial illustration) by post\u2014I know there are more than a few typography aficionados who visit here from time to time.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, Manitoba I\u2019ve spent the better part of the weekend (with invaluable help from Ev and Simon Statkewich\u2014thanks!) transporting a ton or so of letterpress display type, along with a number of proof presses and assorted letterpress paraphernalia (that I\u2019ve just purchased from colleague Susan McWatt FitzGerald) out to my place in the woods. (Sue, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,11,16,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5926"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15857,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5926\/revisions\/15857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}