Need Help with Identification. Thanks

Hello,

Appears to be Wedding Text. X has no line through it, Z looks funny and so does the $ and ?..

See pics.

Thanks

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This is called Plate Text # 4…..BB&S Foundry

I’m curious as to the point size you have here?

Thanks,

Point size is 14

Scott

From “American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century”, by Mac MacGrew; p.255…

“Plate Text is an Old English design made in several varieties by BB&S about 1902. Plate Text itself is a shaded face, similar to Typo Text (q.v.); Plate Text No. 4 is a fairly light design, just a little heavier than Wedding Text (q.v.), but not as well drawn. Compare Shaw Text.”

The immediate similarity with Wedding Text is the curly-ques under several of the caps. The X does not have a cross bar as does Wedding Text. Also the “P” has a vertical line lacking in Wedding Text, the “Q” has a curly-cue underneath, and the lower case letters have many very different little idiosyncrasies.

I actually like this face better than Wedding Text, notwithstanding MacGrew’s observation/opinion.
The better nomenclature would be Plate Text No. 4, not “# 4”, as I first wrote.

Dave