Wood Rule No 9

Specimen of Wood Rule No 9

Wells & Webb
1½ line
Wells & Webb showed single groove
rule as early at 1840, but first explicitly
indicated them for sale in 1849 Speci-
mens of Wood Type.

Name used, and first showing, by
other manufacturer:
Cooley, No 8 (c.1859)
Hamilton, Wood Rule No 9 (1884)
Hamilton renamed it New Series U in
1897 and then later No 600 Series
(both sold on the point system)
Knox, No 9 (1858)
Page, No 21 (1859)
Morgans & Wilcox, No 50 (1890)