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Found Movable Type

Found Movable Type

Outside a shop on Queen St. West.

groups: Typography and Lettering, Writing Machines | tags: Movable Type, Toronto, letters, numbers, type, typography | comment
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Submitted by PhotoShop Guru on Wed 2007-04-04 08:18 #

Strange stuff. Its not normal movable type. Looks like it might be type matrices for casting type.

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Submitted by Guilherme Kramer on Mon 2007-06-18 19:36 #

wonderful shot!

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Submitted by sillygwailo on Sat 2007-10-20 16:18 #

I went to the place where I found this, and the guy sold the collection. I'm kicking myself for not having bought it, but in my defense, I didn't really care about typography then.

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Submitted by sillygwailo on Thu 2009-04-23 20:25 #

James Bradley adorns a blog post about The Second Pass, a book review website.

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Submitted by AMERICAN ARTIST BEN MURPHY on Mon 2009-06-15 19:50 #

Such a cool shot! Used it on my site (with credit to you) benmurphyonline.com/news/bio/writesubmit/ -B

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Submitted by sillygwailo on Mon 2009-06-15 20:48 #

Thanks Ben!

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Submitted by coax-london.com on Tue 2011-09-20 15:27 #

Thank you so much Richard! I have used your pic for my blog post about Love Letters www.coax-london.com/blog/love-story/dont-write-love-lette... The image links back to here I hope that is ok? Ox

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