Ornaments & Pointers

Assorted sizes & cuts

Box 171

Hamilton sold Wood Pointers in sets of twenty-five pieces made up of eighteen designs. The Collection holds seventeen of the eighteen Wood Pointer designs available from Hamilton.

Wood Pointers

swashes and pointers arranged in pairs

Wood Pointers

Hamilton Manufacturing Company
4–line and 6–line

These were first shown in the Hamilton Manufacturing Company’s 1893 broadside Specimens of Wood Pointers.

The Hamilton Manufacturing Company sold Wood Pointers in sets of twenty-five pieces made up of eighteen designs. The collection holds seventeen of the eighteen Wood Pointer designs sold by the Hamilton Manufacturing Company.

Florentine, Jenson, Blanchard and Collins Ornaments/Florets

floral and natural ornaments with annotations labeling the historically recorded names of the cuts

Florentine Ornaments No. 1, No. 4, No. 5, and No. 9

The Hamilton Manufacturing Company
6–line and 4–line

This was first shown in the Hamilton Manufacturing Company’s 1899 Catalog No. 14, Hamilton’s Wood Type.

The Hamilton Manufacturing Company also sold these ornaments as New Series Floral Borders, in sets of one hundred, to work in conjunction with New Series Wood Rule to produce a range of border combinations. Tubbs & Company offered Florentine Ornaments at least as early as 1903.

Jenson Ornament

The Hamilton Manufacturing Company
10–line

This was first shown as wood type by the Hamilton Manufacturing Company at least as early as 1899 in the company’s four-page brochure Campaigners Series and New Designs in Wood Type.

The ornament first appeared as foundry type set with the specimen for Jenson Old Style in ATF’s 1896 Pacific Coast Blue Book, Containing Specimens of Type, Printing Machinery, Printing Material, American Type Founders Co. This ornament was also shown in the Hamilton Manufacturing Company’s 1906 Catalog No.16, Specimens of Wood Type, with the samples of both Bradley and Jenson Old Style. The Hamilton Manufacturing Company noted in the 1899 specimen catalog that both Bradley and Jenson Old Style were “made by permission of the American Type Founders Co.”

Blanchard Ornaments No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, and No.5

The Hamilton Manufacturing Company
8–line

This was first shown in the Hamilton Manufacturing Company’s 1902 Catalog No. 15, Specimens of Wood Type, included with the specimen of the typeface named Blanchard that was “made in wood by permission of the Inland Foundry, St. Louis, Mo.”

These ornaments were designed to be used in conjunction with the Blanchard typeface first shown by the Inland Type Foundry in 1900.

Collins Florets

The Hamilton Manufacturing Company
4–line

This was first shown as wood type in the Hamilton Manufacturing Company’s July 1896 Catalog No.13, Hamilton’s Wood Type, included with the specimen Jenson Old Style and “made by permission of the American Type Founders Co.”

These ornaments were released as foundry type by ATF at least as early as 1896.