This U.S. case matches that illustrated in Harpel: Typograph or Book of Specimens (1870) and MacKellar: The American Printer (15th ed. 1885 and 17th ed. 1889, though not, for example, 5th ed. 1870), and Curtis & Mitchell: Price List (1878) and (1886), and the Simons case of c.1885 in Pryor: History of the California Job Type Case in Journal of the Printing Historical Society No.7 (1972). It is also shown in Palmer & Rey: Type Specimen Book (1892), and Lockwood: American Dictionary of Printing & Bookmaking (1894) and Barnhart Bros & Spindler: Pony Specimen (1890s) and Book of Type Specimens No.9 (1907), and American Type Founders: Blue Book (1895) and Desk Book of Type and Printing Materials (1900), and De Vinne: Practice of Typography - Modern Methods of Book Composition (1904 and 1914), and American Type Founders: American Line Type Book (1906) and Gujarati Type Foundry: Type Book (c1928) and as a Hamilton case (nd) in Long: Wood Type & Printing Collectibles (1980). Pryor dates this style of case as from 1836.
The upper case bay has seven equal sized rows of boxes. However, the later version of American Type Founders (1923), Missouri-Central (1959) and American Printing Equipment & Supply Co (1983) differs in having 3 small rows, then 3 tall rows, then 1 small row in the right hand bay, rather than 7 equal rows. De Vinne also shows an (Italic) Job case with 8 boxes, rather than seven, in each upper case row.
Note that the Italic case differs from the otherwise similar California Job case as that case has only five rows in the upper case bay. There is also a Two Third Italic version of the case.
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