Geometric
Central Type Foundry, St. Louis. 1882. Werner, N.J. "Saint Louis' Place on the Typefounders' Map." The Inland Printer. Vol. 79, No. 5 (August 1927): 764-766. cites Geometric as one of several faces the matrices of which were engraved by machine at this very early date (the other two faces were Geometric Italic and Morning Glory.
Central Type Foundry, St. Louis threatened Barnhart Brothers & Spindler over infringement of Geometric by BB&S's Lyric Lightface (See Werner, N.J. "Saint Louis' Place on the Typefounders' Map." The Inland Printer. Vol. 79, No. 5 (August 1927): 9 , which cites The Type-Founder No. V (Summer 1883): 253.
Geometric Italic
Central Type Foundry, St. Louis. Werner, N.J. "Saint Louis' Place on the Typefounders' Map." The Inland Printer. Vol. 79, No. 5 (August 1927): 764-766. cites Geometric Italic as one of several faces the matrices of which were engraved by machine at this very early date (the other two faces were Geometric and Morning Glory.
Gold Rush (ATF No. 588)
ATF recutting (1933, 1949; but not listed in the ATF Book of American types for 1934 or 1941) of a face cut "about 1865" by Bruce and called, then, either Antique Shaded or Ornamented no. 1514. (McGrew).
Electroform copy by John S. Carroll as Gold Rush.
Gold Rush (Carroll Copy; Phoenix, LATF, Skyline)
McGrew traces the history of this face to a face cut "about 1865" by Bruce and called, then, either Antique Shaded or Ornamented no. 1514. As originally cut it had both uppercase and lowercase. ATF (McGrew says) revived it in 1933 and 1949 as No. 588, Gold Rush (q.v.) (N.B., ATF No. 12 is their "Antique Shaded," and is an entirely unrelated design.) John S. Carroll [ Replica Type Foundry] electroformed a copy of it "in the 1950s", and his matrices went to Typefounders, Inc. [of Phoenix] and from there to Los Angeles Type Founders (again, information from McGrew). (LATF was acquired by Barco, and the Barco "antique" matrices were in turn acquired by Skyline Type Foundry. The Skyline matrix inventory does list Gold Rush.) No source that I have found indicates any size other than 24 point for this Carroll version.
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Gray, No. 109
Catalog No. 109 from Nicolette Gray's XIXth Century Ornamented Types and Title Pages . Shown on p. 181. A Two-line small pica by Stephenson, Blake from circa 1849.
This is the same face as Doric Ornamented (in wood) by Wells & Webb. See also Ornamented No. 847 (Bruce). Revived in the mid Twentieth Century in metal as Tuscan Ombree and in the late Twentieth Century digitally as Zebrawood[TM]. See the main entry for this design's history under Tuscan Ombree.
Gray, No. 190
Catalog No. 190 from Nicolette Gray's XIXth Century Ornamented Types and Title Pages . A face by Caslon Caslon, circa 1865 (revived 1884).
Copied as Ornamented Nos. 7/19/40/27/1046 (Bruce) and Ornamented No. 22J (Cincinnati). Revived as Tuscan Graille (= Stellar (Weidemann)).
Gray, No. 211
Catalog No. 211 from Nicolette Gray's XIXth Century Ornamented Types and Title Pages . A face by Figgins, circa 1870.
Revived in the Twentieth Century as Tuscan Ornate (Weidemann)
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