Double-Groove & Fancy Rule

Assorted sizes

Box 178

Solid wood rule

different lengths and heights of wood rule with double grooves, one zig-zag, with annotations labeling the historically recorded names of the cuts

Fancy Rule No. 22

William H. Page & Company
1½–line

This was first shown in William H. Page & Company’s 1874 Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type, Borders, &c.

Wood Rule No. 6

Wells & Webb
2–line

This was first shown in Wells & Webb’s 1849 Specimens of Wood Type.

Name used and first showing by other manufacturers:
Cooley/ No. 15/ c. 1859–1863
Knox/ No. 12/ 1858
Hamilton/ Wood Rule No. 12/ 1884; renamed New Series J in 1897 and then No. 724 in the March 1926 specimen brochure, Gothics and Wood Border; both sold on the point system
Morgans & Wilcox/ No. 57/ 1890
Page/ No. 18/ 1859

Wood Rule No. 12

Wells & Webb
1–line

This was first shown in Wells & Webb’s 1849 Specimens of Wood Type.

Name used and first showing by other manufacturers:
Cooley/ No. 16/ c. 1859–1863
Knox/ No. 8/ 1858
Hamilton/ Wood Rule No. 4/ 1884; renamed New Series E in 1897 and then No. 712 in the March 1926 specimen brochure, Gothics and Wood Border; both sold on the point system
Morgans & Wilcox/ No. 43/ 1890
Page/ No. 26/ 1859

large selection of double-groove and fancy wood rule from the archival box