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2 letterpress types: Italic and blackletter

lazydog

Can you help us with any information or guesses you have about the origin and age of these typefaces?

- Mike Yanega

I'ver never seen these strange fonts. But I'm sure, I'ld remember
Are you sure, this are fonts? Lead letter press fonts or digital ones?
The A of the Antiqua Variante is not very unsusual, but the capital E, F are.

And the second one looks like what a digital typographist may have thought about a Kanzlei Gothic.

Need more information. All, what you know about were these fonts are coming from.

Georg
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„Ich bin ein Preuße, kennt Ihr meine Farben...“

Hello Oliver,
the Italic is Recta Kursiv (H. Berthold 1926). A sample can be found in Global Type’s Digitalem Seemann.
F

Florian, I could not find that on that site. Does that typeface have a Roman version?

- Mike Yanega

No, it seems it was published as a standalone Italic. Try this (English language) link: http://www.global-type.org/Searching.743.0.html
Alas, Global Type doesn’t allow direct links. You have to enter ‘Recta’ into the ‘Name’ field, it’s the only hit that has an image. Not much information, though.

The pdf on H. Berthold types by Klingspor Museum confirms that there was a Recta-Kursiv published in 1926 – but it has no sample.
F

Here's a small sample of Recta-Kursiv.

bist n schatz, florian, danke!

sorry for not answering earlier... but for those who are still trying to find the blackletter: both typefaces are from a letterpress printing shop here in munich. i don't know anything about their age or provenance. no casting marks either...

oliver

You’re welcome.
For the Textura: I assume you’re not looking for a digitally available approximation, but for an actual ID.
Still, I found one in Fraktur Mon Amour that comes pretty close, in overall style:
Blackletter Extra Bold


F

yes, i'm looking for the actual id, not digital "approximations". i already found similar faces like mediaeval gotisch (genzsch & heyse; cf. global type), but not this one...

i updated the image with some more letters (upper case and figures). especially the caps might help, as they are built more like initials.

oliver

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