Looking for a Specimen of "Ovid" by Heinz Keune, published 1903 by Schelter & Giesecke

Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) · April 2020

What it says on the tin - I have a partial specimen from the 1912 Hauptprobe, but I'm missing some critical letters and most of the numbers. Would anybody have another specimen or use example?

Cheers,

Oliver

Thomas Phinney · April 2020

Perhaps you can show the specimen you have? Might help find more samples.

Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) · April 2020

Ah yes, that would indeed be helpful! It's the one on the right. (I've already done the left one

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Florian Hardwig · April 2020

Not much, but for starters, here are two samples from Klimschs Jahrbücher 1906 and 1907. I don’t have scans of higher resolution.

The inevitable “Hamburg” from Seemanns Handbuch der Schriftarten:

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This label has three lines of Wettin, which is Ovid’s wider precursor, also by Keune.

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Oliver Weiss (Walden Font Co.) · April 2020

Great, thank you, Florian!

Looking for a Specimen of "Ovid" by Heinz Keune, published 1903 by Schelter & Giesecke

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