Empty Large Letter Cases

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This typecase is the model 2717 shown in Hamilton Manufacturing Co: Printing Plant Equipment, Type Storage Section, Catalog 16 (c.1932). It is designed to hold a regular fifty pound fount with an extra job fount of caps and five pounds of spaces and quads. It was supplied with twenty-four loose plain horizontal strips to divide up the type, by fitting the strips between the slotted vertical partitions.

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This page was written in 2009 by David Bolton and last updated 10 February 2009.