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Subject:Those "little boxes" are worth a fortune From:"JACK P. SHAW" <jsh -at- SOFTWARE-AG -dot- DE> Date:Fri, 5 Nov 1993 11:58:01 MEZ
The font boxes that Pat. Anderson referred to, called California job
cases, now sell for about $
100+ apiece in antique shops. Like cigar
molds, they get used for restaurant decor...
Our shop (we learned to hand set type in a mandatory class called
"industrial arts") teacher in high school had a neat remedy for
cut-ups: they got to sort all that mixed-up type after class...
Jack Shaw
industrial arts fugitive
Darmstadt, Germany
