Issued as wood type by Wm. H. Page in 1870, Celtic is “basically a Belgian with open rectilinear ornaments at the median”. [Kelly 1969] Celtic No. 1 has a wraparound contour and top/bottom spurs. In Celtic No. 2, the ornaments are solid. Celtic Ornamented has contouring shadow lines only along the stems. Also available in a chromatic version, patented March 15, 1870. [Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type, Borders &c. manufactured by William H. Page & Co, 1874]

Celtic is shown in the Solotype catalog (1992) as Ishpeming, Celtic No. 1 as Zebulon (Wood No. 112). Celtic Ornamented is shown in Dan X. Solo’s Victorian Display Alphabets (Dover, 1976) as Marquette, and it’s included in Headliners’ Morgan Press Collection as MP 338.

Celtic and No. 2 were digitized as Celtic Ornamental Wood Open and Solid, (Alan Prescott, 1995–96, also in expanded widths). Celtic Ornamented was digitized as San Marcos NF (Nick’s Fonts, 2005, used for sample). See also Pepperwood (Adobe, 1994).