ATF Keepsake 2012: Psalm 51

Source: https://www.flickr.com.Photo: Norman McKnight. Keepsake: Alan Dye. License: All Rights Reserved.

This 2012 Keepsake for the American Typecasting Fellowship was printed by Alan Dye of Noble Impressions Press using 16 and 36 pointSachsenwald. This blackletter is a lesser-known Berthold Wolpe face designed in the early 1930s before Wolpe fled Germany to England. Monotype in London released it in 1937, on the eve of World War II, but it was officially discontinued in 1967 and fell into obscurity until it was recast in 2007 by the Michael & Winifred Bixler Letterfoundry.

Photo: Norman McKnight. Keepsake: Alan Dye. License: All Rights Reserved.

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Source: https://www.flickr.com.Photo: Norman McKnight. Keepsake: Alan Dye. License: All Rights Reserved.

"There were apparently only two sets of matrices ever made, & only one of them is known in use & is provided by the Michael & Winnifred Bixler Type Foundry." — Ephimeros