Cut by John F. Cumming for Dickinson [ATF 1895–96] around 1885 [Reichardt 2011]. No lowercase. Comes with various alternates, including for ‘DGHLMNORU’, end and center ornaments, and flourishes. Decorative strokes have three lines in sizes from 24pt upward and two lines in smaller sizes.

“THP theorizes that Ludwig S. Ipsen of Boston, a master book illustrator/lettering artist, designed Mother Hubbard and perhaps many other faces introduced by the Dickinson and/or Boston type foundries. It was almost certainly named for Boston socialite Anne S. Hubbard, whose husband, Charles W. Hubbard, was a prominent artist. In 1904, Ipsen designed bookplates (one of his specialties) for the Hubbards.” [THP]

Zierschrift Monopol is a close copy by Scholz. Reproduced in Petzendorfers Schriftenatlas, Neue Folge (c.1903) with a superscript ‘O’, but no other alternates.

Harrild & Sons showed a wood type adaptation named Latin Ornamented [c.1890s specimen].

Photo-Lettering showed two variants, Goldfield (w/o multiline wavy strokes and with forms not shown by Petzendorfer) and Monopol [PLINC 1965]. Also adopted by Headliners as part of the Morgan Press Collection as MP 324 [1976 catalog].

Digitized by Willie Ford as Uptown (Lazy Dog Foundry, 1992) and by George Williams as Monopol (1993), both based on the Scholz version. The latter adds a lowercase derived from Ringlet (minus the ornamentation). More thorough interpretations with alternates were made by John Wollring as Mother Hubbard (2013, used for sample, unreleased?) and by Alan Prescott as Morton Roman (Alan Prescott Typography, 2013, unreleased?) [THP].