Hi all -
Can anyone possibly suggest a good match for THE GREYS / SILK CUT VIRGINIA typeface used on this old tin?
Typophile
Vintage Tobacco Tin typeface
Elements of Perpetua and Penumbra feel right, but it's the R I'm really trying to match...
thanks!
or Bookman old style...sort of close...
For overall letter forms, I think it may have been based on something like Goudy Medium (just raise the crossbars on the |H|, |G|, and |E| and rein in the serifs):
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/redrooster/goudy-38-rr/
For general look and feel, but still missing some crucial details (such as the |R| and some serifs), these might also work for recreations:
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/aperto/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fontbureau/grand-central/
http://www.t26.com/search?q=Glosso
There’s also a passing resemblance to Korinna, which was designed in 1904 (the serifs are way off, but the overall form isn’t bad):
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/adobe/itc-korinna/
Nevada Serial captures some of the details (especially the |E|):
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ef/nevada/
The Goudy 38 is a closer Goudy -- here is the Book weight
Nevada is also interesting
Looking at the _G_ I note, in addition to the high bar, a small spur on the chin, a feature shown on Vertrina and quite a few fonts of the era.
Don
The engraving or lithography used to make the lid design may have been made by an English craftsman who was familiar with a font sold in England as Wren, which has the sucking lemon _G_ with a tall bar and a small spur on the chin, and various similarities in other letters.
Don
Wren is the English version of Tiemann Mediaeval designed by Walter Tiemann in 1909. There is a digital version by Gerhard Helzel.
See page 15 of his specimen book:
http://www.romana-hamburg.de/Schriftmappe.pdf
http://www.romana-hamburg.de/Fraktur.htm
Don
Captured from web.archive.org on 12 Mar 2015. view this capture
Pre WW I spur serif design. Can't decide if it is lettering or was a font. I did not spot an obvious digital substitute.
Scale is small but it may include an arrowhead termination on the goose-neck terminals of _C_, _G_ and _S_.
The leg on _R_ reminds me of some Goudy fonts from the era, such as Goudy Oldstyle
Some general similarity Vertrina
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/gatf/vertrina/
Possible substitute, which differs in many details, is a Mark Simonson recreation of a 1920s lettering style called Goldenbook
Don