[a billhead from Joh. Enschedé en Zonen] productionoriginals written fifty years later

written fifty years later

and Union Carbide

This jaunty piece of printing has the Society of Printers celebrating Boston’s role in the revolution before it was cool

The Midnight Message

Klaus Schmidt

[a billhead from Joh. Enschedé en Zonen] productionoriginals written fifty years laterIts May 6, 1936. Two things happened: The Hindenburg left for the US (where things would not go well) and Ensched billed the publisher Brill for a bunch of type. We dont know what type they were buying, but we look forward to someone telling us. Note, though, that they were selling type by the kilogram. Were out of practice, but we seem to recall that 4 square inches of type weighs 1 pound. So, from the looks of it, they were buying very small