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From: Adjustments of the Type-&-Rule Caster. (Philadelphia, PA: Lanston Monotype Machine Company, 1926).

If any type casting machine were to bring forth the ire of partisans of "real" type foundries, it would be the Monotype Type-&-Rule caster, so I chose it to illustrate this topic. I get that way sometimes :-)


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