1/4 | 1/2 | 3/4 |
1/8 | 3/8 1/3 | 5/8 2/3 | |
1 | 2 | 3 |
4 | 5 | 6 | |
7 | 8 | 9 |
0 | $ | 7/8 |
This U.S. lay is shown in American Type Founders, American Line Type Book (1906) and Catalogue (1923), and in Hamilton Manufacturing Company, Modern Cabinets, Furniture and Materials for Printers, Catalog 14 (c.1907) and Catalog 15 (1922) and Catalog 16 (c.1932), and Thompson Cabinet Co, Equipment for Printing Plants Catalog 47 (c.1949). The empty case is Figure. Note there is an earlier BBS version, which has 7 boxes in a row.
It is a full-size case intended to provide extra large boxes for numerals and fractions, and thus claimed by Hamilton to be a necessity in every printing office. However they also showed an improved Byerly Figure case, which could hold two founts of figures.
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