punchcutter

This requires an exact language that is charming and unforgiving, jargon which began with the punchcutter from the

The Guardian World News Simon Garfield 2010

This requires an exact language that is charming and unforgiving, jargon which began with the punchcutter from the

The Guardian World News 2010

This requires an exact language that is charming and unforgiving, jargon which began with the punchcutter from the

The Guardian World News Simon Garfield 2010

George Hammond, another punchcutter, took over where Bertaut left off, and was responsible for most of the recutting by hand of other sizes that took place between October 1894 and 1908.

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The post concluded with a quotation from an account published in 1851 by Ambroise Firmin-Didot of the use that had been made of this technique to make brass matrices for a set of very elaborate and delicate ornamented capitals for the gothique ornée of the Didot typefoundry, for which the punches were cut in steel by a punchcutter called Cornouailles.

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Perhaps their impression on the highly-calendared paper is a little pallid, but the comfortingly familiar, old-fashioned shapes and the clarity of outline and the quality of their casting do honour both to the punchcutter and to the typefounder.

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Miller & Richard's punchcutter was Alexander Phemister, who emigrated to the United States in 1861, and he is said - although on what evidence is not clear - to have begun his work on the type in about 1852.

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In the case of the titling letters of the romain du roi there is a claim from the punchcutter that strikes were made with the steel punches in lead, and that these were used as patterns to cast replicas in brass.

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