Empty Mongolian Single Case

This Mongolian case construction has been deduced from some 15 cases shown in two photographs of cases in use in the 1930s and 1940s, being image 111 and 126 in the Box 28 A prnting factory, Ulaanbaatar [1930s] collection of glass slides held in the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme EAP264/1/5/3/115. The dimensions are not given, but appear approximately 72 x 30 inches (assuming one double box is possibly 6 inches high, i.e. covered by one hand as shown in the photo.). The case has 115 boxes, 60 in the top four rows and 55 in the bottom six rows. It is not clear which script is being used in these cases, as the typefaces are not visible. Mongolian script was changed in 1941 first to Latin then to Cyrillic, but if these cases were in use prior to 1941, the type is likely to be Mongolian script, which reads vertically. As another slide in the collection shows two linecasters, which presumably were for Cyrillic (or Latin) script, that would explain the use of the Mongolian cases for hand setting the Mongolian script.

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This page was written in 2026 by David Bolton and last updated 9 April 2026