Part 3 - Type Metal

Reference code

IE CA CP/1/15/3

Title

Type Metal

Date(s)

  • c.1930-1965 (Creation)

Level of description

Part

Extent and medium

c.400 items; Artefact

Name of creator

Irish Capuchin Franciscans
(1615-2023)

Repository

Irish Capuchin Archives

Archival history

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Scope and content

A collection of sorts and type cases used by printers for the publication of 'The Capuchin Annual'. A sort is a piece of metal type representing a letter or symbol, cast from a matrix mold and assembled with other sorts bearing additional letters into lines of type to make up a form from which a page is printed. The file also includes two original card boxes holding the type sorts: an empty Adana Standard Printers’ Type / 12pt. Times Roman (lower case letters only) and 6pt. Rockwell Light type supplied by Eric W. Massey Ltd., 13 Harcourt Street, Dublin.

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      Note

      Box 45

      Note

      For information on the use of 'sorts' in typesetting see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sort_(typesetting)

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