Shown as wood type as early as 1867 [Farmer]. Then by William H. Page in James Conner’s Sons’ Typographic Messenger, Vol. 5 No. 1 (January 1870). [RRK] Tuscan Ornamented is a related wider design.
See New Orleans (Photo-Lettering, by 1950) for an all-caps phototype interpretation.
Digitized by mpressInteractive in 2013 (used for sample).
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Photo(s) by Bart Solenthaler on Flickr.