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typefaces with lower-case, as early as 1825. This was repeated by some authors, but is now known to be untrue: Wolfgang Homola dates it to 1882 based on a study of Schelter & Giesecke specimens.
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Beginning in 1827 Schelter & Giesecke manufactured letterpress presses, cylinder proof presses and platen presses; and after World War I also of web-fed, letterpress and flexo printing presses.
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The Leipzig house of foundry co-owner Georg Giesecke, designed by Berlin architect Max Hasak, survives and is listed.
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The foundry claimed by the twentieth century to have been one of the first to offer general-purpose
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Villa Georg Giesecke, the Leipzig house of foundry co-owner Georg Giesecke
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competition of 1965 uses the company's popular Breite halbfette Grotesk.
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also comments that the claimed date is "forty years too early" and
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Unless otherwise noted, all types in this list are cited from
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These foundry types were produced by Schelter & Giesecke:
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This article about an industrial corporation or company is a
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David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston, Massachusetts, 1990,
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Georg Kraus mentions the date 1915, as does Nick Curtis .
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Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson.
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and manufacturer of printing presses started 1819 in
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German type foundry and printing press manufacturer
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Leipzig: Seeman. 1926. 751:(1840) Rived in 2020 by 272:Breite Halbfette Grotesk 251:and was a forerunner of 779:(1918) Digitization by 731:Schmale Anker Romanisch 691:Leipziger Lateinschrift 657:schmale Salzmannschrift 485:Leipziger Lateinschrift 401:(1890) The original by 1399:-related article is a 899: 583:, later copied by the 547:Patriz Huber Ornamente 419:Initialen zur Rousseau 159: 1284:Sabine Knopf (2011). 897: 853:Kartenschrift Watteau 835:Walgunde mit Zieraten 563:Reklameschrift Radium 296:F.H. 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Index


Aktiengesellschaft
Type foundry
Johann Schelter
Christian Giesecke
Leipzig
Germany
Georg Belwe
type foundry
Leipzig
Johann Schelter
Christian Friedrich Giesecke
German Democratic Republic
VEB Typoart
Dresden

International Bartenders Association
Alan Prescott
Belwe Roman
Georg Belwe
Art Nouveau
Ralph M. Unger
Bauhaus movement
Helvetica
Nick Curtis
Arve Båtevik
F.H. Ernst Schneidler
Max Salzmann
Max Salzmann
Albert Knab

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