Dearing Job Case
Jumbo Job Case

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This U.S. layout is shown as a Jumbo Job by American Type Founders' Co. Pacific Coast Blue Book: Specimens of Type, Printing Machinery, Printing Material (1896) and as a Dearing Job by Hamilton Manufacturing Co: Catalog (1897) illustrated in Pryor: History of the California Job Type Case, in Printing Historical Society Journal No.7 (1972). Palmer & Rey: Type Specimen Book (1892) shows the same lay, apart from reversing ? and ! but American Type Founders (1906) and later Hamilton catalogues show a slightly different lay for the punctuation.

Palmer & Rey state that the lay is that adopted by all the prominent offices of the Pacific coast. The empty configuration is Dearing Job.

Pryor notes that Dearing, who was the salesman for Read (the agents for Miller & Richard), conceived the Two-Thirds Job Case (often called a California Two-Third Case) around 1876. The Dearing Two-Third Case is exactly the same as the Dearing full-size case, apart from being 213/4 x 165/8 ins rather than 323/16 x 165/8 ins. Note the pattern of the capitals bay, ie 1 short row and four tall rows, which Hamilton call the California pattern. Their illustration of the full-size case appears to show the box for . and , twice, and omits ; and : which must be a mistake. The : and ; are shown above as for the two-third case. Also, the two-third case reverses the order of ' and -

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This page was written in 1997 by David Bolton and last updated 12 March 2009.