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• Design Patents
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John F. Cumming | A Humble, Honest Man

• Introduction
• Biographical Overview
• William E. Loy’s Article
• Employers’ Patents (future)
• 19th-Century Boston
• The Boston-Central Connection
• Boston Type Foundry, 1870-1881
• Boston Type Foundry, 1881-1884
  • Bank-Note Faces
  • Italic Caps
  • BTF-Caslon Fonts
  • BTF Scripts
  • Kismet
  • The “German City” Faces
  • Rubens and Durer
  • Soudan, Syrian, Latin Antique, Copley
  • Weimar, Century, Albino and Tradename Unknown

• Dickinson Typefoundery, 1884-1892
• American Type Founders’ Company, 1892-1901
• The Hansen Hypothesis