German Linotypes

Taken from a Linotype brochure published in Berlin in the 1930s. Some quite unusual machines.

Simplex — Simplex.

Model 12

Model 11 — Model 11.

Model 10

Model 8 — Model 8.

Model 5

Model 4b

Model 8

Model 4

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