Seven sheets of early proofs of Berthold Wolpe’s typeface
Sachsenwald, showing 24, 48, 22, 36, 14 and 30D sizes. [The Monotype
Corporation:] 24/7/36 – 25/11/38. Seven sheets (25 x 20cm) printed one side
only. The specimen of 30pt is shown printed on both laid and coated papers. The
first five sheets, to 1/2/37, bear the original name of the type, Bismarck
Schrift. The type was first shown in the blackletter
number of the Monotype Recorder,
36:1, Spring 1937. The completed series 457 consisted of nine sizes. According
to Michael Bixler, whose upstate New York typefoundry offers Sachsenwald, only
two sets of matrices were ever made. Sold.
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