searching for unknow decorative caps (2)

Hi, wise people

I am finding hardly to get these (attached) decorative initials (in COMPLETE ALPHABET paper sample type specimens or in authentical letterpress printing type). I appreciate any light in this problem

best regards

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Good luck on that! I would assume that your quest will be next to impossible unless someone is in possession of a complete set of the electrotyped cuts. They were offered individually simply because they were bought that way to fulfill a specific need or layout. I really doubt if even a handful of people would have ever ordered a complete alphabet set of them. And for those to have survived as a complete set somewhere a century after the fact simply makes the odds even more unlikely.

I am almost sure that these were not originally foundry cast.

Sorry for the dismall outlook, but it never hurts to ask and who knows, maybe you will find them. I guess stranger things have happened.

Rick

Thanks, Rick. But I can, maybe, acquire different letters from diferent sources, and, in the final, get all the alphabet. Or, I can ask for those who have single letters to print samples for me…