#brass type

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Typography Tuesday

Rebuild Something New, Revolutionary. Industrious Grand Intentions Wanted, Handy and Neat Combined. Stand Indian Maid, Ancient National Rambler: The Beauty American.

A little patriotic poem of Indigenous sovereignty and the American future from Brass Type, an early 20th-century type specimen book from the H. C. Hansen Type Foundry, Boston, Massachusetts. Hansen operated from 1872 to the early 1920s, and was the only independent type foundry remaining in Boston after the consolidation by the American Type Founders in 1892.

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Working on a series of logbooks for Access Gallery’s Twenty-Three Days at Sea Artists Residency Program.   

Setting the brass type and stamping the cover with gold foil.

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Type Jewellery

Wow! Well, it was only a matter of time before someone made jewellery out of cast metal type. Gwen Delicious on Etsy produces these pendants from vintage slugs of type and trinkets from old typewriter keys.

While thinking about this idea in the past, I was always concerned about the dangerous lead content and wondered if there was a way to coat it. The Canadian accessories label has avoided this by using brass type instead. Unlike softer lead type (which also contains tin and antimony), brass type can withstand greater pressure and is generally used to stamping and embossing. 

These burnished old slugs have all the scuffs and imperfections from their original use and are strung from a gunmetal chain.