Paul Duensing notes that the Haas foundry acquired matrices from: Deberney & Peignot, Berling, Olive, and "a small foundry from Denmark. { Duensing, Paul Hayden. "Metal Type: Whither Ten Years Hence?" Fine Print. Vol. 11, No. 1 (January, 1985): 20 }
The article on Henry Brehmer in William E. Loy, "Designers and Engravers of Type," No. 22, Inland Printer, Vol. 24, No. 2 (November, 1899): 243 says of him that after leaving the Falckenberg typefoundry circa 1861, he went to Berlin, "finding employment in several places" and that "his next experience was in the well-known typefoundry of Haas'sche, in Basel, Switzerland." Brehmer emigrated to the US in 1865.
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