Hand-held type mould.

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Creator

R. Stanley Nelson.

Title

Hand-held type mould.

Coverage

Columbia, MD,

Date

1985.

Description

In 1985, RBS commissioned R. Stanley Nelson to create a type mould for hands-on teaching and instruction. This facsimile was modeled on a 30-point, 16th-century mould of French design that Nelson studied at the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp in 1982. The mould breaks into two halves that can be adjusted to accommodate matrices of different widths, which are held in place by a curved spring.

Source

From the collection of Rare Book School