A variant of Antique
Tuscan with contour. No lowercase. “First shown as wood
type by Darius Wells and E.R. Webb in wood type section of W. & H.
Hagar’s 1854 Specimen of Printing Types.” Also sold by
Cooley, Knox, National Printers’ Materials, Page, Wells [RRKWTC].
Also known as Antique Tuscan Outlined. First shown by
Page in 1859 [Kelly
1969].
Facsimile Fonts offered a phototype version as
Yukon [Berthold
1974]. Already shown in 1973 [Typeshop
1973].
Shown by Solotype as Assay Rimmed [Solo
1992]. Tim Ryan of Type
Revivals might have had a digitization under that name, but
that’s unconfirmed. Digitized by Alan Prescott as Antique
Tuscan Contour Wood (1996, unreleased?) and by Dick Pape as
AWT Page Ant(ique) Tuscan Outlined More…
A variant of Antique Tuscan with contour. No lowercase. “First shown as wood type by Darius Wells and E.R. Webb in wood type section of W. & H. Hagar’s 1854 Specimen of Printing Types.” Also sold by Cooley, Knox, National Printers’ Materials, Page, Wells [RRKWTC]. Also known as Antique Tuscan Outlined. First shown by Page in 1859 [Kelly 1969].
Facsimile Fonts offered a phototype version as Yukon [Berthold 1974]. Already shown in 1973 [Typeshop 1973].
Shown by Solotype as Assay Rimmed [Solo 1992]. Tim Ryan of Type Revivals might have had a digitization under that name, but that’s unconfirmed. Digitized by Alan Prescott as Antique Tuscan Contour Wood (1996, unreleased?) and by Dick Pape as AWT Page Ant(ique) Tuscan Outlined (2013, based on the showing in American Wood Type which is the cutting by Vanderburgh Wells & Company; used for sample).
