An open Clarendon with solid SE shade and thin split shade,
decorated with dots at the middle of stems and also elsewhere. The
largest size additionally has parallel lines.
Shown by Besley c.1860 as Argentine. Austin
Wood had a version with lowercase by 1874. Shown in Germany by
1865. [Gray 1976]. Continued by Reed &
Fox. [1874
specimen]
Shown by Farmer in four all-caps
sizes, as Two Line English Ornamented No. 20,
Two Line Long Primer Ornamented No. 13, Two Line
Brevier Ornamented No. 5, and Two Line Nonpareil No.
22. [1867
specimen]
Shown by Schelter
& Giesecke with lowercase, also in four sizes, named Nos. 362,
363, 364, and 381. [1886
specimen] No. 381 was advertised already in 1867. [Conroy]
Reproduced in Petzendorfers Schriften-Atlas as a
“Verzierte Antiqua” (“decorated roman”), without name. [Petzendorfer 1889] Flinsch had a version with Cyrillic. [1907
specimen] More…
An open Clarendon with solid SE shade and thin split shade, decorated with dots at the middle of stems and also elsewhere. The largest size additionally has parallel lines.
Shown by Besley c.1860 as Argentine. Austin Wood had a version with lowercase by 1874. Shown in Germany by 1865. [Gray 1976]. Continued by Reed & Fox. [1874 specimen]
Shown by Farmer in four all-caps sizes, as Two Line English Ornamented No. 20, Two Line Long Primer Ornamented No. 13, Two Line Brevier Ornamented No. 5, and Two Line Nonpareil No. 22. [1867 specimen]
Shown by Schelter & Giesecke with lowercase, also in four sizes, named Nos. 362, 363, 364, and 381. [1886 specimen] No. 381 was advertised already in 1867. [Conroy]
Reproduced in Petzendorfers Schriften-Atlas as a “Verzierte Antiqua” (“decorated roman”), without name. [Petzendorfer 1889] Flinsch had a version with Cyrillic. [1907 specimen] Los Angeles Type Founders had this design in two sizes under the name Argentine. [<1978 specimen]
A capital alphabet is shown as one of the Twelve Unusual Alphabets Compiled by Crosby/Fletcher/Forbes (1970).
