? - ? Founded 1887 as Thormod Monsen & Son, jobbing printers. Chicago.
The Gordon L. Monsen Design Papers are at the University of Illinois at Chicago; some of the history above is taken from their website for this collection of papers.
Rich Hopkins, in "Studying the Bulmer Design," American Typecasting Fellowship Newsletter, No. 34 (May, 2010): 17 confirms that Monsen did in fact make matrices (he has some).
A specimen for Companion Old Style as cast by Twin Quills Press suggests that matrices for that face cut by Goudy himself were in the possession of Monsen. These matrices were acquired by Twin Quills.
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