[PW] ? display cases ...
Kay Lancaster
kay at fern.com
Tue Jul 17 15:46:28 PDT 2007
> make them to order with ornaments and such that detail
> someone's life . . . they look sort of like type cases (in
> which you keep movable printing type, but those have almost all
> the compartments the same size, and what
BTW, type cases came in quite a few different styles, with sizes
of partitioned areas dependent on what was likely to go into
them. I learned to read upside down and backwards standing on a
stool on the other side of table while my grandfather hand-set
special headlines from a California Job case into a compositor
stick.
Kay
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