Ottmar Mergenthaler & The Linotype

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Some more First Day Covers.










This last one features a gold replica stamp

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Made In America: Building A Nation - Linotyper - Postal Commemorative Society
Issued August 8, 2013.

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Issued on 30 September 1993 for the 75th anniversary of El Pais newspaper             (Uruguay)



Outline drawing of a Linotype machine on panel of stamp

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Issued on 5 December 1998 for the centenary of the daily newspaper El Liberal, Santiago del Ester



Linotype in background

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During the two world wars there was a shortage of coins and banknotes in Germany and Austria due to the expansion of German territories and there not being enough physical cash to meet the demand of new users. As a result of the cash shortage, the state bank allowed individual towns to cities to print their own banknotes and mint their own coins. They were called notgeld or "emergency money" which is the literal transaltion from German.

Issued on 31 July 1921, the 50 Pfennig note shows compositors at frame and also a Linotype machine

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Not the best of images.

Back of card mentions Italtype -Italian manufacturer, a subsidiary of Linotype, which produced composing machines and block-line casting machines.

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Postcards    Broadheath - Linotype Works - Linotype and Machinery Limited - Publ. Neils series
From the early 1900s



Different wording on facade of this slightly later postcard

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In the 1970s and 1980s, a New Zealander named Bruce Grenville began a hoax, claiming to have founded the Sultanate of Occussi-Ambeno. He invented a history for the Sultinate and produced many cinderella stamps for his creation.
On 21st September, 1989 he issued Great Print Inventors.

Ottmar Mergenthaler appears on the 2 cent and 2 dollar stamps

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Here's a "poster stamp" which could be stuck onto an envelope to advertise a business, alongside the regular postage stamp.

I know very little about it, having just spotted it for sale on eBay. It's from Denmark, and it appears to be for a business that handles Funditor equipment.

I'm guessing it's from the 1950s and I love the stylised illustration.