Empty Border Case

                                                                                                 
                        
                        
                        
                        
                        
 
 
                       
 
 
                       
 
 
                       
 
 
                       
 
 
      
 
     
 
 
      
 
     

This configuration matches that in Barnhardt Bros & Spindler: Book of Type Specimens No.9 (1907) and the Model 2790 of Hamilton Manufacturing Co: Modern Printing Office Furniture, Catalog 15 (1922) and their Printing Plant Equipment, Catalog 16 (c1932). Hamilton state that it is a roomy case of large capacity for border characters. However, the smallness of some of the boxes does mean that not very many pieces of a particular border can be stored in the one box, so roomy must apply more to the number of borders it can accommodate.

The case is the same as the Chicago Border and Ornament Case of Barnhardt Brothers & Spindler: Pony Specimen (1890s), except that that version has one less middle row of boxes.

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This page was written in 1998 by David Bolton and last updated 27 November 01.