|
|
| |
Hot Type, Hard Times 1900-1910
The Post Register's exhibit at the entrance to Eagle Rock, USA
|
     
   
Click Picture to Zoom In | Tools of the trade
Type sticks were used to hold individual lead slugs during composition. A Merganthaler rule offers printers' measures in the traditional picas (about 6 to an inch), points (about 12 per pica), and agate (a standardized type size of about 7 points). Forms for printing circles in hot lead days weren't simple: A brass circle with a rule-edge was inset with lead slugs of type, then wedged snugly with metal or wood 'furniture.'
The square form contains a block of cast type in a chase, wedged with wooden type furniture and locked. |
|
Return to the Hot Type, Hard Times Main Page
|
|
|
|
