Ionic Condensed

5 Line

Box 050

Antique | Clarendon | Uppercase

  • This type measures 5 line in size and was produced with the end-cut method. The type block is stamped Wm. H. Page & Co., Greenville, Ct. which was used by Page and Mowry between 1859–1870.
  • This face was first shown as wood type by William H. Page in his 1865 Specimens of Wood Type.
  • This cut of Ionic Condensed was shown in American Wood Type on page 271 and in the folio on page 90.

Type name used by manufacturer:
Hamilton Ionic Condensed or No 182
Morgans & Wilcox Ionic Condensed [3043]
National Printers’ Materials Ionic Condensed
Page Ionic Condensed [4182]
Tubbs Ionic Condensed
Wells Ionic Condensed or No 445 [5040]

This cut is the Page cut.

In the 1884 Hamilton & Katz Specimens of Holly Wood Type, multiple catalog numbers, No 12 and No 13, are listed for what seem to be the same design of Ionic Condensed. These multiple numbers were replaced with the single No 182 in the 1889 Specimens of Wood Type and Borders. No 182 is used here in this list as it was the only number for this cut used by Hamilton in specimen books after 1889.

simple specimen of Ionic Condensed wood type from the Rob Roy Kelly collection, printed in the UT Design Lab

Character Quantities

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    3
  • B
    2
  • C
    2
  • D
    2
  • E
    5
  • F
    2
  • G
    2
  • H
    3
  • I
    2
  • J
    3
  • K
    2
  • L
    3
  • M
    3
  • N
    3
  • O
    3
  • P
    2
  • Q
    1
  • R
    4
  • S
    5
  • T
    4
  • U
    1
  • V
    3
  • W
    3
  • X
    2
  • Y
    3
  • Z
    1
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  • 0
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  • &
    1
  • $
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  • !
    1
  • Open Apos/Comma
    -
  • Close Apos
    1
  • Period
    -
  • Question Mark
    -
  • Colon
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  • Semi-Colon
    -
  • Dash
    1
  • Ligature
    -
  • Other
    -

Additional Specimens & Other Content

antique original wood type specimen catalog from wood type manufacturers in the 1800s featuring Ionic Condensed type

Wm. H. Page & Co.’s Specimens of Wood Type, Manufactured at Greenville, Conn. (1867); Kemble Collection, Kemble Z250 P2; California Historical Society

Ionic Condensed specimen book page from American Wood Type 1828-1900 by Rob Roy Kelly

Ionic Condensed, page 271, American Wood Type 1828–1900, Rob Roy Kelly (1969)

letterpress print specimen of wood type from the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection Folio Revisited, black type layered on cascading green rectangles printed with the back of wood blocks

letterpress print specimen of wood type from the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection Folio Revisited, black type layered on cascading green rectangles printed with the back of wood blocks