On offer: 72 point (approx. 1") Clarendon Medium letterpress type. This font of sign type is complete with all uppers, figures, and some symbols and punctuation. Please see photos for more details.
Clarendon is a traditional English style of typeface, dating from the 1940's, the name comfing from the Clarendon Press at Oxford, or, according to some sources, from Britain's Earl of Clarendon and his interest in that country's Egyption Policies. (Such faces were classified as Egyptions, and inspired such later designs as Cairo, Karnak, Memphis, and Stymie.)*
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*From the Second, Revised Edition of American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century, by Mac McGrew.
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