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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   



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