Typophile

Ta-ra-ra-boom-der-ay! Victorian lettering on old music sheet

Dave A

Modern equivalent(s) for this lettering?

http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/guided_tours/music_hall_tour/music_hall_stars/collins.php

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Quincunx

Oh, that is a nice poster.
Who designed it? Small characters on the bottom... something like W.T. Stannard?
I have no idea of there are fonts that mimic this kind of lettering jobs.

timd

http://www.myfonts.com/search?search%5Btext%5D=victorian

P22’s collection would cover some of these

http://www.p22.com/products/victorian.html

Tim

or Letterhead
http://www.letterheadfonts.com/

Stephen Coles

Victorian fonts at FontShop.

Dave A

(Mea culpa, and a thousand pardons, for mistakenly posting this in General instead of where it belongs: the Font ID forum. Blush.)

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