French Antique (Page) in use https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/10714/french-antique-page French Antique (Page) in use. Page’s extra condensed wood type in the “French Antique” genre. First shown in James Conner’s Sons Typographic Messenger, Vol. 4, No. 4 (July, 1869). [RRK] Very similar to French Clarendon XXX Condensed, but without bracketing. Digital revivals include MPI French Antique (mpressInteractive, 2013, used for sample), and French Antique ExtraCondensed (Wooden Type Fonts, Jordan Davies, 2006, incl. a lowercase and some shapes with different contrast (‘A’)). See also Cattle Drive JNL. en Copyright 2026 , FontsInUse.com LLC Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:19:38 +0000 Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:19:38 +0000 3600 <![CDATA[“Home Made Bean Soup” sign]]> https://fontsinuse.com/uses/48648/home-made-bean-soup-sign Bryson Stohr






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From Alan Mays’ collection of broadsides, handbills, signs and other ephemera. This cardboard sign advertising home-made bean soup for a quarter dollar is undated. Judging from the featured typefaces – Nesbitt’s Gothic, caps from an Antique Condensed, and numerals from a French Antique – it might have been made in the last quarter of the 19th century. No size is given, but chances are that it was printed from wood type.


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