David, I, too, believe it most unlikely that either Lanston or Monotype Corp. would have produced any such matrices. I think making such matrices would have been somewhat ironic given that it was ...

For those unfamiliar with these Old English letters, here's a description of the last six to be dropped from the alphabet, ...

Are you talking about Monotype matrices here?
Surely those characters became obsolete before it's invention.

Has anyone heard of any matrices for old English letters such as thorn uppercase Þ/lowercase þ (which printers typically did not have in their fonts and set y instead, hence "ye olde shoppe" instea...

Here's some video of the newspaper being printed in happier times:

Thanks for posting that George, sad news. Here's a great article from ABC News Australia about the closure: 

After 113 years the Don Dorrigo Gazette, the last Hot Metal letterpress newspaper in Australia, has printed the final edition. I had known that the end was near from a Linotype mechanic ...

Ash (æ) and Ethel (œ), these characters were normally available with Monotype.

Issued on 4 March 2016 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Allgemeine Zeitung.             (Namibia)

The Allgemeine Zeitung is a German language newspaper in Namibia. The stamp shows papers c...