This U.S. typecase configuration is shown by Van Winkle: The Printers' Guide (1818), and is effectively the standard U.S. configuration, matching for example Mackellar: American Printer (2nd ed 1866, 5th ed 1870 and still in 17th ed 1889), Harpel: Typograph or Book of Specimens (1870), Ringwalt: American Encyclopaedia of Printing (1871), Curtis & Mitchell: reduced Price List of Types, Borders, Cuts, Rules and other Printing Materials (c1878 and 1886) and Southward: Practical Printing (1882). It is the News Lower of Barnhart Bros & Spindler: Pony Specimen (1893) and the Lower of Palmer & Rey: Specimen Book (1892), American Type Founders: Specimen of Wood Type and Catalogue of Printers Wood Goods and Materials (1893) and Lockwood: American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking (1894), American Type Founders: Blue Book (1895) and American Line Type Book (1906) and Specimen (1923), De Vinne: Modern Methods of Book Composition (1904 and 1914), Barnhart Bros & Spindler: Book of Type Specimens No.9 (1907) and Henry: Printing for School and Shop (1917). It is the Lower News of Polk: Vocational Printing (1918) and Hague: Textbook of Printing Occupations (1922) and the Lower model 2725 of the Hamilton Manufacturing Co: Modern Printing Office Furniture, Catalog 15 (1922) and Printing Plant Equipment, Type Storage Section, Catalog 16 (c.1932). It is the News Lower shown by Polk: The Practice of Printing (1926 and 1937 and 1964), the Lower of Updike: Printing Types (1937) and Thompson: Equipment for Printing Plants, Catalog 47 (1949), and the News Lower of Missouri-Central: Price List (1959). It is also the English Lower shown by Hostettler: The Printer's Terms (1949 and 4th ed 1963).
Note that there are 54 boxes, and that the 7th and 8th boxes from the right in the top row are separate boxes, whereas they form a single box in the standard English Lower case (which has only 53 boxes). The actual type lay is Van Winkle, and the companion empty Upper is the standard upper configuration of Moxon, et al., although in the 20th century, an improved News Cap was introduced.
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