Illustrated Catalogue of Linotype Parts
Book details
- Title
- Illustrated Catalogue of Linotype Parts
- Author
- Ottmar Mergenthaler s
- Publication year listed
- 1898
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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Illustrated Catalogue of Linotype Parts
Author: Ottmar Mergenthaler and Company
Year: 1898
"Illustrated Catalogue of Linotype Parts Manufactured and Sold By Ott. Mergenthaler & Co." (Baltimore, MD: Ott. Mergenthaler & Co., 1898). This is a catalogue produced by Ottmar Mergenthaler's own machine shop in Baltimore after his falling-out with the New York based syndicate which became the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Because the NY company controlled the basic Linotype patents, only they could manufacture complete machines. Mergenthaler's own company manufactured both spare parts and attachments. (They did so until 1905, when they ceased active manufacturing and their facilities were sold at auction.) The original paper copy of this catalogue is missing pages 1-21 at the beginning of the parts section and pages 84-92 at the end of the parts section. It seems to have been bound this way. This catalogue is significant for many reasons. It shows several views of the Ott. Mergenthaler works. (The view of its offices on p. 158 is believed by Stephen O. Saxe to show Mergenthaler himself at his desk.) It demonstrates that the Ott. Mergenthaler Co. was using the same system of part numbering as the Mergenthaler Linotype Company (some of the part numbers appearing it it remained in