This style of U.S. California case has three rows of cap boxes larger than the other two, and also has the : ; boxes smaller than the . - boxes. It is shown by Henry: Printing for School and Shop (1917), Polk: Vocational Printing (1918), American Type Founders: Specimen Book (1923), Hamilton Manufacturing Co, Modern Printing Office Furniture, Catalog 15 (1922) and Printing Plant Equipment, Type Storage Section, Catalog 16 (c.1932), Polk: The Practice of Printing (3rd ed 1945), Thompson Cabinet Co, Equipment for Printing Plants, Catalog 47 (c.1949), Polk & Gage: A Composition Manual (1953) and Missouri-Central Type Foundry: Price List (1959). It is also shown by Atkins: Art & Practice of Printing (1932), and Hostettler: The Printer's Terms (1949 and 4th ed 1963). An alternative style has the : and ; boxes the same size as the . - x q boxes, and is shown, for example, by Polk: The Practice of Printing (1926 and 1937) and in England by Stephenson Blake & Co: Printing Equipment (1960s). The Black Rock Press at University of Nevada, Reno in 1998 had both styles of case made by Hamilton, and both made by Thompson Cabinet Co.
An earlier configuration of this case has only one row of cap boxes (the top right) smaller than the other (four) rows. It is shown by Palmer & Rey: New Specimen Book (1884) and Hamilton Manufacturing Co: Catalog (c.1897) (both in Pryor, A History of the California Job Case, Journal of the Printing Historical Society No.7 (1971)), and by Barnhart Bros & Spindler: Pony Specimen (1890s). All three slightly different styles of configuration can be compared together as California.
Pryor dates the introduction of the original California Job Case as 1874, and states that it had become the most popular U.S. typecase by the early 1890s, and indeed Palmer & Rey in 1892 state it to have been in constant use on the Pacific Coast for nearly 20 years, and the best full-size case ever made. A variety of lays for this case can be seen as US California Job, a modern version as Polk & Gage, and foreign versions as UK California Job, and WA California Job.
The empty two-third case is Two Third but there is some confusion between this and the Two Third Yankee.
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