Category: Press and typeface identification
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Earlier topic: Initials

DC in a circle within another circle

Could anyone help to identify the manufacturer of some type, please?
The ‘logo’ appears on the As and is the letters ‘DC’ in a circle within another circle.
This is good quality, well made wood type. Age as yet unknown but pre ww2.
Thank you!
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Further to my previous question, a further example clearly shows, to the naked eye, PATENTED HARD FACE MACHINE CUT between the two circles. The initials in the centre are D & C.
d,arcadian

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Your wood type was manufactured by Ventris of London, England, a long extinct wood type manufacturer.

I don’t have the slightest clue what the D&C in the center of the inner circle stands for, but this was their mark.

I actually ran across this last night in a little book titled “Wood Type & Printing Collectibles” by Robert Long, copyright 1980.

I have a few hundred fonts of wood type, but none from Ventris. Of interest to you might be the fact that I do have a wooden font named Arcadian!