Antique Tuscan Extended

Specimen of Tuscan Expanded

This type measures 3 line in size and was produced with the end-cut method. The type block is stamped Page & Co., Greenville, Ct. which was used by Page and Basset between 1857–1859.

This face was first shown as wood type by Darius Wells and E.R. Webb in their 1854 Specimens of Wood Type. 

Antique Tuscan Extended was shown in  American Wood Type on page 278. This cut was not shown in the folio.

Type name used by manufacturer:

Cooley Antique Tuscan Extended

Knox Antique Tuscan Extended No 1

Hamilton No 15

Morgans & Wilcox Antique Tuscan Expanded  [3206]

National Printers’ Materials Antique Tuscan Extended

Page Antique Tuscan Extended  [6221]

Tubbs Antique Tuscan Extended or No 2075

Wells  Antique Tuscan Extended or  No 346  [5200]

This is the Page cut.

In American Wood Type Kelly mis-labeled Antique Tuscan Extended as Antique Tuscan Expanded.