Underwood typewriter ad
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in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 1920.
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The ad proudly lists the results of a typewriting competition held in Basel on 17 April 1920: most of the winning ladies relied on a machine made by Underwood.
Note the narrow alternate ‘s’ in the second line. Berthold Block contained a number of those which helped in fitting the text to a given width. The serif is one of the many metal precursors of Romana. The very condensed type for the number of contestants (“180 Konkurrierende”) might be Berthold’s Schmale Herold.