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USA  Bronze medal for 50 years devotion to the Graphic Arts.

Edward Everett Bartlett (1863-1942) renowned typeface designer, 1926. Edward Everett Bartlett was a printer and typographic director at Linotype.

He designed Garamond and Garamond Bold and the italic versions of both plus Elzevir no.3.

Reverse of the medal shows him at work surrounded by his tools and equipment with the legend in Scots Gaelic: chan ann dhuinn phein amhain – we don't have one pen.

Portrait of the printer on obverse, by R Marschall with text.




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Number 7 in a series of 100 from Franklin Mint        U.S. History (Bicentennial) Ingots
Issued from 1975 to 1983



The Liberator was a weekly newspaper of abolitionist crusader William Lloyd Garrison for 35 years. It was the most influential antislavery periodical in the pre-Civil War period of U.S. history.

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The Genius of America Ingots Collection (Franklin Mint, 1984)  Silver



Also issued in bronze   



The last image is not the best of images.


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1900's - 1910's advertising watch fob for Mergenthaler Linotype Company.
The centre of the watch fob features an elaborate, high-relief detailed image of a linotype machine. The reverse reads: MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE CO.      THE LINOTYPE WAY IS THE ONLY WAY   in embossed lettering. THE GREEN DUCK CO. CHICAGO at bottom



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1920s Linotype 'Don't Worry Club' Good Luck token, manufactured by the Green Duck Co., Chicago.




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1976  Postmasters of America    Commemorative Medal   
Sterling Silver Coin from the  Franklin Mint

A Jacob Perkins press which was used to print the first 'Penny Black' stamps can be seen on the right



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