12-line Hamilton Gothic Wood Type Font

This is the 2nd of 2 great fonts I picked up yesterday. It's pretty rustic in that many of the letters have been cut ("shop cut") to fit with other letters in a process called kerning. So it's not in perfect condition but it's pretty artsy and the letters look great. It's missing a few sorts like the sixes and fours. I wish I know what it had been used to print.

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p.s. received a note just now from the person who sold me the font, with more info on "shop cutting:"

"Reminded me of this photo I saw the other day, from a story on the American Printing History Association website.

Seems the Government Printing Office just donated a large cache of wood type that had long been gathering dust in their basement to the Corcoran Art School for their letterpress printing program. Among the treasures was this notice stuck in one of the type cases:

"Do Not MORTISE Wood Type without permission of Foreman or Assistant Foreman"

"Mortise" of course is the proper term for "shop cut," and involved kerning the type by actually trimming the wood letters with a table or band saw in various places to make letters fit together better. Obviously, it was a delicate process, as one slip would cut into the printing surface and ruin the letter. No doubt the Foreman (you can almost make out his name at the bottom of the notice) was tired of people without the requisite skills ruining his type.

You can see the full story here:

http://www.printinghistory-chesapeake.org/news/111119-corcoran-broadsides/index.html