Previous discussion of similar "rugged" fonts http://typophile.com/node/115257
Unfortunately no match to Red Rooster's Pickworth.
Don

Dieter Steffmann has a version called Antique No. 14:
http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/steffmann/samples/a/antique14.htm

Nick Curtis has a cleaner version called Snappy Patter:
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/nicksfonts/snappy-patter-nf/

Pete Dako also created a version in 1991 called Speedball (available as shareware from numerous sources).

All are evidently based on a typeface called Antique No. 14 featured in Dan X. Solo’s “Rustic and Rough-Hewn Alphabets” book.

Many thanks Kevin for the "Antique No 14" reference. Dan X. Solo often used names for the fonts he purchased that differed from the original name, but I suspect that this one could perhaps be unchanged from the original. It gives me something I can use while going through old source names. Sounds like the type of font name that would have been used by a foundry like Central, Bruce or Conner
Also thanks for the reference to the polished version by Nick Curtis. Some differences in the letter-forms due to editing but obviously based on the same font.
The Peter Dako digital font of 1991 identifies it as "Hunt SpeedBall." This seems to suggest a source in one of the Hunt lettering books.
Speculating: Hunt lettering based on an old foundry font called "Antique No 14" ??? Or no old foundry, just the Hunt lettering??? Should find a Hunt book and see if it is there and if so whether he calls it "Speedball" or "Antique No 14" ....
The Steffmann digital font of 2000 is a clone ripped from the Dako font. I standardized the sizing and found the pattern of points in the outlines are the same, allowing for errors resulting from conversions back and forth; including the sequence of lines and curves in the digital outlines.
The quest continues
Don

A version of this appears on page 104 (Plate 44) in The Hunt Brothers book "60 Alphabets"in 1931 and reprinted in numerous editions (My copy is sixth edition 1944) It is called Modern German Bold.

Many thanks Bob.
Looking closely at the Hunt Brothers "60 Alphabets"

and comparing it to the digital outline of Red Rooster's Pickford Old Style suggests that this could peraps be the source they used for the digital font. I see similarities in where the bumps occur, but I also see differences.
This is another lead to follow to the source of this design, perhaps in Germany. Bauer, S&G etc. In any case, this confirms that the design is pre-1931.
Don

Note comment in Hunt's revised book "101 Alphabets"
Found on the internet a few years ago. Can't recall where.
Don

OPTI called their version Antique Fourteen. Digital outlines seem identical -- allowing for conversion errors -- to the Red Rooster Font. So which came first, the Rooster or the egg, i.e. the OPTI :)
Don

Here is the whole plate from "101 Alphabets" by the Hunt Brothers