[a packet of specimens from Stevens, Shanks & Sons] IvesItems and an important designer (Zahn)

and an important designer (Zahn)

and distributed by the above and Harold Hugo of the Meriden Gravure Company (due south of Northampton [more or less])

As a student at Wesleyan University and at Yale University

Peter Bugden

color printing (including something they call “wax engraving”)

[a packet of specimens from Stevens, Shanks & Sons] IvesItems and an important designer (Zahn)Fonts in Use reports that the English foundry Stevens, Shanks & Sons was formed in 1933 after merging P. M. Shanks and Sons with Figgins. And thats all we know about this foundry because weve not done any more research. Weve just looked at whats in front of us. We count nine cards with full alphabet showings of historic metal types. Were talking Antique 3 and Antique 5 and Clarence Condensed and Figgins Shaded and Antique 6 and so on. (Were looking at