The Thompson: The Quality Type Caster
Foundry
Thompson Type Machine Company
Classification
Mixed
Language
English
Description
An advertising booklet for the Thompson Type Caster, a "sorts caster" designed to allow printers to cast their own type for hand composition. Undated, but published between 1908 (when the Thompson company started) and 1929 (when it was purchased by the Lanston Monotype Machine Company).
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