Hello,
I'm in the process of reviving "Fafner", an angular Art Nouveau typeface issued by Schelter & Giesecke. It appears in my 1912 Hauptprobe (see attachments), but may have been issued earlier. The two samples below provide me with most of the characters, I'm only missing F, J, Q, X, Y, j, p, q, x, y. Would anybody have any material that shows at least some of these glyphs?
Thanks!
Oliver


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The 1923 Die deutsche Schriftgießerei, eine gewerbliche Bibliographie implies that the only “catalogue” Schelter & Giesecke published between 1898 and 1912 was a “Schriftprobe in gedrängter Form”, in 1906, and that catalogue’s page format was quarto. Of course, Fafner is probably in type specimen catalogues S&G printed after 1912, too. But maybe not after the 1920s?
The above-mentioned Bibliographie lists a Fafner brochure from 1907 in its S&G sectionm, too (the exact line of text reads “Fafner. 16, Querheft, 1907. 8º.”) Perhaps the Letterform Archive has that? Or perhaps you can find someone who’s got it?
Generally speaking, these artistic typefaces don’t have so many specimens available for them, as you of course already know. If an ad for Fafner was ever run in trade journals, it probably would not have had too much type on it 😞
Also, your image above doesn’t quite indicate that the Schraffierte style is made of tightly spaced horizontal lines to created the gray effect. Here’s a (poorly shot, sorry) close-up from a later specimen also at LfA:
Cheers,
Oliver
It shows the only official Italian importer was Achille Putti, in Bologna (hey, near me!). :-)