ATF Newsletter

The American Typecasting Fellowship

This is intended to be an archive of all of the back issues of the American Typecasting Fellowship Newsletter. It isn't "official," because nothing about the ATF is official (see its delightful by-laws). It is, however, presented here with the permission and support of Richard L. Hopkins, co-founder of the ATF and, since its beginning, the sole member of the Communications Committee (and printer & publisher of the Newsletter).

For more information on the group, see the CircuitousRoot ATF Notebook. See also the ATF website: https://www.AmericanTypecastingFellowship.org

At present, Newsletters Nos. 1 - 19 as presented here are from my own scans of my copies. These aren't necessarily pretty scans, and the files sizes can be quite large. (Also note that my copies of Nos. 3 - 11 were bound with a great deal of love and glue by a former owner. This is apparent in their condition as scanned.) Nos. 20-24, 26-37, 39, and 41-44 are from scans by Terrence Chouinard. These scans often omit blank pages. Nos. 25, 38, 40, and 45 are PDFs supplied by Rich Hopkins, who printed the originals (except No. 45, which was created digitally by Rich and printed by Scott Vile).

Thanks are due first to Rich Hopkins, for editing this Newsletter for over four decades and for providing digital originals for several of these issues. Thanks to Sky Shipley ( Skyline Type Foundry) for preparing an index to issues 1 through 30. Thanks also to Terrence Chouinard for scanning so many issues.

Most of the unattributed articles in these Newsletters were written by Rich Hopkins.

(The lists associated with each issue are simply my own notes. For the most part they aren't, strictly speaking, tables of contents.)

• The Conference is Over But Fond Memories Remain.
• Conference Proceedings to Be Published via Letterpress.
• Typecasters Organization Established at Meeting.
• By-Laws of the American Typecasting Fellowship.
• Official Delegates at the Terra Alta Conference.
• Notice: Chicago Monotype Operation Being Sold [A & P Typographers].
• Unclassified ATF Type Faces and Sizes [6 page table from 1951 American Type Founders Descriptive Price List; information complied by Stevens L. Watts.]

• News of ATF Formation Spreads Quickly; Enquiries Are Varied.
• Sophisticated Computer Stuff. [finding Monotype paper tape at Radio Shack!]
• Query: Got Authentic 'Fat Face' Mats?
• The Poor Man's Remelt Furnace. [a deep fryer, adapted]
• Proper Alignment for Sorts. [reprint from Lanston, 1939]
• [Duensing acquries English Thompson and 16x17 Comp. Caster]
• Query: Who Was Thompson?
• Feller, Matthews: Goudy's 'Companion.' [revivals]
• A Bit of Nostalgia from Paul Duensing. [caster in scrapyard]
• Czarnowski Open Again. [Baltotype, Volker Bros.]
• Query: How Do You Heat Old Bruce's Pot.
• Hot Metal Typesetting Chill.
• Roy Rice: Insulating Your Thompson. [if gas, DON'T]
• Koike advertisement, reprinted.

• Rare Thompson Specimen Studied.
• Complete Listing of Thompson Fonts by Number.
• Useful Information on the Thompson Caster.
• Thompson-Thompson to Monotype-Thompson Symbol Translations.
• Monotype Standard Screw Threads.
• Berliner: Who Was John Thompson?
• Cade: About the Thompson Gas Pot. [BTU/vol, orifices]
• Monotype UK: Still Committed to Hot Metal.
• Let's Share Thompson Molds.
• Correspondence and Notes.
• Classifieds.
• Barney Rabin Cuts His Own Linotype Mats.

• Maybe a Conference This Summer.
• Followup to the Thompson Article.
  • Giant matrix mold notes.
  • Rule-Casting Attachment.
  • Thompson T. M. Co. and Linograph.
  • John Thompsons personal machine.
  • Additional Thompson matrix font numbers.
• Source for Engraved Matrices. [Design Trends, Inc.]
• Hopkins: Bits & Pieces About Composition Caster Operation.
• Hopkins: On Shipping and Storing Typecasting Equipment.
• More People 'Found' with Lots of Equipment.
• All Matrices Aren't the Same Depth.
• Correspondence.
• Modern Hand-Mold Proposal Being Developed. [Stan Nelson, with drawings]
• Yes, Virginia, Once There Was Hand-Set Type for Doing Music.
• Maurice Annenberg and Bill Turner obituaries.
• Classifieds.

• Summer Conference is Definite 'Go'.
• This Was Best in Typesetting 100 Years Ago. [Thorne/Simplex/Unitype]
• Hartzell to Have Warehouse Sellout. [incl. 2 pantograph punch cutting machines]
• Typecasters Gather on West Coast. [Dan X. Solo "Benton" pantograph from England]

• A Most Memorable Conference. [No. 2, Larchmont & New Rochelle, NY]
  • Account of tour of American Type Founders (June 30).
  • Account of tour of Columbia's ex-ATF/Bullen collection.
• Two Reflections on Today's Type Technology.
• Monotype Sells Mat Libraries.
• The Living Legend: American Type Founders Company.
• McGrew: The 'Other' ATF.
• Correspondence. [incl. first letter from Arvind Patel]
• Horowitz: Lubrication: The Key to Successful Typecaster Operation
• Nebiolo Foundry Gets Revived by Employees
• Letters.
• Classifieds.

• Special Conference in Britain Proposed.
• Postscript to ATF Article in Last Issue.
• Self-descriptions by/of private type foundries:
  • Paul Hayden Duensing: The Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing.
  • Jim Rimmer: Pie Tree Press & Type Foundry.
  • Stan Nelson: The Atelier Press & Typefoundry.
  • John Grant: Grant Locomotive Works Foundry and Print Shop.
  • Robert Halbert: The Private Foundry of Robert Halbert.
  • Roy Rice: The Recalcitrant Press & Typefoundry.
  • Phil Cade: Cade Type Foundry
  • A. R. Soule: [no name for type foundry]
  • Owen Stout: [no name for type foundry]
  • Richard L. Hopkins: Hill & Dale Private Press and Typefoundry.
  • Vance Gerry: The Weather Bird Press. [Linotype, Thompson]
  • Hartzell Machine Works, Inc.
• Some Laughs and Some Serious Concerns.
• The Haas Typefoundry.
• Printing News Tells of ATF.
• Death Claims Pioneer Private Typecaster; Shop Virtually Lost! [Harry Weidemann]
• Collectors Face Good Guys & Bad Guys.
• Reviewing Bruce's First Patent. [No. 632, 1838]
• Useful Tidbit for Persons Importing Matrices.
• Former Thompson Mat Source. [National Matrix Co., Baltimore]
• Missing, Missing. There Always Seems to be One Mat Missing.
• A Giant of a Hot-Metal Shop Slowly Fades Into Silent Oblivion. [US GPO]
• Wintertime Uses for Old Type.
• Richard E. Huss Proposes Book on 'The Composition Matrix.'
• Piccoli Suggests Logo
• Type Designs Cast by ATF Members [assembled by Guy Botterill from castings by Pat Taylor, Paul Duensing, Harold Berliner, and Rich Hopkins]
• Thirty 15x17 Monotypes to be Auctioned by GPO March 1, 1982.
• Correspondence
• Classifieds.

• Oxford Meeting is Great Success.
• Indian Foundry is 'Discovered.' [Gujarati Type Foundry, Bombay]
• A Hidden Meaning. [cartoon]
• Letters. [incl. Andrew W. Dunker; also John Risseeuw query about Charles Broad]
• Self-description of: N. Fritzberg: The Hansestadt Letterfoundry.
• Death of Frank Sassaman, prop. of Sterling Type Foundry.
• On Keeping Old Machines Alive. [Paige Compositor]
• Advertisement for Huss' The Printer's Composition Matrix
• Note on piece by Dan X. Solo in Graphic Arts Monthyly on the shop of T. J. (Tom) Lyons.
• Moving a Caster Isn't an Impossible Task.
• A Pro Will 'Beat the Book' Every Time. [visit of several experienced castermen to Hill and Dale]
• Mail-Order Mat Cases. [Monotype matrix cases as trivets, paperweights, or wall hangings]
• Hartzell Will No Longer Make Matrices.
• Classifieds.

• D.C. Conference Set for June 21-24.
• European Hand Type Still Available. [Haas, Neufville, Stephenson-Blake, Stempel, Yendall/Riscatype, Amsterdam-Tetterode; Gujarati, Technograf, Typoart, Grafotechna]
• Will Your Hobby Shop Outlast You?
• Monotype Casters Take Back Seat to Microcomputer - Temporarily.
• Announcement of Delay for Huss' The Printer's Composition Matrix.
• A VIP Tour of Monotype International. [illustrated]
• Paul Quyle. A Tyro's THoughts about Oxford Meeting.
• Paul Hayden Duensing. 'Typographically Famous' at Oxford Conference.
• Typefounder from India Visits U.S.A. [Modi]
• Relocated Monotype Equipment To Be Used in Book Arts Teaching.
• Barney Rabin. Difference in Making Own Lino Mats Explained
• English Linotype Organization Still Offering Matrices for Sale
• Mac F. McGrew. Lanston's Matrix Numbering Explained. [with compiled list]
• Seeking Equipment? Perhaps Here Are Some Leads. [alas, now long gone]
• Roy Rice. Making Paper by Hand - Since the 17th Century.
• U.S. [Lanston] Comp Matrix Production Continues - Facilities Now in California at Mackenzie-Harris.
• [Note: includes partial photograph of a punch record card.]
• Historic Matrices, Early Literature, Trditional Process Demonstrated. [at Oxford Univ. Press & St. Bride Library]
• [Jim Rimmer, (nearly) finished drawing for type.]
• Sterling Type Foundry Trdition to Be Continued - Dave Churchman Buys Plant, Moves It to Indianapolis.
• [Facsimile of top of Thompson Type Machine Company invoice dated 1928]
• Jim Rimmer. Original Font Cut in Lead, Matric[e]s Are Electroformed.
• Various Private and Commercial Typecasting Projects Reported.
• Letters.
• Classifieds.

• [Quote from Rudolph Koch printed on tissue]
• Some Information on Back Issues for You and Bibliographers.
• Conference Captures 'Fellowship' Spirit. [4th Conference, Washington, D.C.]
• A Sterling Type Foundry Partner. [David W. Peat]
• Complete Alphabet Showings of Two Original Metal Designs Are Revealed by Jim Rimmer.
• [Showings of 18 pt Juliana Oldstyle and 18 pt Nephi Mediaeval.]
• Linotype is the Subject of Dissertation. [George Corban Goble]
• Stephen O. Saxe. The Bruce Legacy to Typefounding.
• Typecasting Activities, Publications Noted
  • Harold Berliner specimen.
  • Duensing Engraves Zapf's Civilite.
  • Rice Electroforms His Own Matrices. [with showing]
  • Type Being Imported from Hong Kong.
• McGrew's Compilation of Lanston Monotype Matrices Alphabetized.
• The 'Myth' About Metal Hardness. [Personal Note (DMM): All non-typefounders who go on about metal composition need to read this.]
• The Why of Lead, Tin & Antimony
• Letters [incl. Stan Pauling, ex-Republic Type Foundry, cutting punches by hand.]
• Gerald Giampa, Jim Rimmer Prepare Exceptional Cover and Insert
• Lieberman Endowment Established
• Recent History, Yet So Very Long Ago.
• 'Unknown' References Held in Stephen Saxe Collection. [incl. National Compositype Catalogue of Matrices]
• Nelson Perfecting Traditional Process
• Computer Aids Hand Composition
• Who Designed Helvetica? Gertraude Knows. [on Gertraude Benohr]
• English Member Acquires a Typograph Caster
• Unnecessary Machine Adjustments
• More Letters
• Media Reports: ATF Meeting, Stan Nelson
• Where to Next?
• A Brief History of Lanston Monotype
• Classifieds [incl. Morneau Typographers]

• Indianapolis to Host Conference July 11-13.
• California Firm Buys ATF Foundry Facility. [Kingsley]
• Huss' Printers' Composition Matrix available.
• Reviewing Updike's Montallegro Design of 1904. [Casting by Pat Taylor, Out of Sorts Foundery[
• Monotype Films Available. [Schlesinger]
• A Thompson Operating Lever for Your Safety. [Duensing]
• Jim Walczak (Sycamore Press & Typefoundry) casting of Kennerley type & border fleurons.
• Sterling Type Foundry ad.
• Can We Perpetuate Hot Metal?
• Type Metal Firm Quits. [Imperial]
• Report of Recent Typecasting Activities at the Hill & Dale. [Showing of Cooper Oldstyle, Lanston No. 282]

• Cover (front and back as one image) from a lithograph by Duval & Hunter as tipped into Ringwalt's American Encyclopaedia of Printing (1871)
• 1988 Conference Plans Announced.
• Indianapolis [1986 Conference]: Belated Story
• Prepare Now to Attend Conference
• What's the Weather Likely to Be in July?
• '20th Century Types' [McGrew] A Winner!
• [Paul Hayden Duensing:] What is This ATF, Anyway?
• Book Documents Stempel Foundry. [Smets/Wilkes. vom Schrifgiessen]
• [James A. Parrish:] On Buying a Ludlow
• An Appreciation for Old-Time Craftsmen. [in "type houses" / advertising typographers]
• ... Or Were They That Special?
• True Confessions: "I Murdered Four Monotypes"
• Letters.
• 100-Year-Old Puzzle About to Be Solved. [Schlesinger on Mergenthaler]
• 19th Century Industrial Trade Museum Envisioned by Writer from Staten Island.
• An Extraterrestrial Typecasting Proposal.
• Re-Composing Silent Movie Title Screens. [Artcraft]
• Early Thompson Manual Reprinted. [David C. Churchman reprint of 1916 manual]
• Un-Classified Ads.

Here is the cover image as a single image (as scanned from my copy of the journal; this is not from the separate reproduction distributed by Rich Hopkins). If you click on the image below you'll get a 2048 pixel wide JPEG version.

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Here is the composited image at 1200dpi (but as a JPEG; it's "only" 56 Megabytes, but a PNG would be 269): atfnl-n12-1200rgb-cover-image-composited.jpg

• Cover image by Stan Nelson adapted from The Penny Magazine.
• Quotation from Fournier in Harry Carter translation.
• California Site for 1990 Meeting.
• [Pat] Taylor Downsizes His Out of Sorts Typefoundry.
• Norm Cordes. Some Solid Advice Before Buying a Linecaster.
• Robert Schladetzky. Talk About A Bargain.
• An Overview of the TA [1988 Terra Alta] Conference.
• Jim Rimmer. Typefounding in Vancouver's Chinatown. [incl. Man-Nen and Hua Nan type casters]
• Acquisitions, Gripes, Museum Notes, Comments. [Correspondence]
• Hot Metal Support Coming to End at Monotype.
• [Centerfold: Hill & Dale casting/showing of 48 pt Caslon Italic No. 4371.]
• Has Anyone Ever Considered Air-Cooling Thompson Mats?
• When Discarded Equipment is Discovered, We're Obliged to Go and 'Check It Out'!
• They've Offered Me a Machine... Should I Take It?
• From New York to Idaho. [Marlboro Mats]
• Greg Walters. A Newcomer's View of the ATF Conference.
• [Photo of Stan Nelson holding hand mold.]
• Ed Rayher. A Low-Key Diversion Or a Boost to My Obsession?
• "They Crowded Into Rooms ... And Melted Metal." [newspaper story of ATF Conference, reprinted]
• [Pat Taylor illustrating dangers of Thompson (p. 25)]
• Paul Hayden Duensing. "Opportunity to Interface with Like-Minded Souls."
• Trip to German Cancelled
• Guy Botterill. "From Hot-Air Balloons to Colonial Williamsburg."
• Sycamore Type Foundry [Jim Walczak] Gets a New Home.
• Proper Diagnosis is Key to Successful Operation. [Composition Caster]
• What Standards Are Standard? ["Monotype Line" alignment for cellular matrices]
• Vance Gerry [Weather Bird Press]. Each Typecasting Effort 'Jinxed.'
• Was It Difficult Dealing WIth an Overseas Company? [Experto Industrial Engravers Pvt., Ltc., India]
• Heartwarming Stories of Lost Matrices Found.
• Here's a New U.S. Source for Custom-Engraved Matrices. [Kayenay Graphics, Mason City, IA / John Henry]

The cover image by Stan Nelson is derived from an illustration of a type foundry which appeared in the second installment of a four-part article entitled "The Commercial History of a Penny Magazine." This appeared in four "Monthly Supplements" to The Penny Magazine (which despite their status as "supplements" bore their own whole issue numbers in the regular sequence of issue numbers of the magazine). Installment No. 2, on "Wood-Cutting and Type-Founding" was in Monthly Supplement of The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , Vol. 2, Whole No. 101 (Sept. 30 - Oct. 31, 1833): 417-424. Here is the image as it appears on p. 424 of the original, as digitized by Google from the Bodleian Library copy. (Click on the image for a PDF of the entire issue of the magazine.)

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• [Editor's Preface on the significance of 1890.]
• History of Machine Type Casting.
• [Portrait of David Bruce, Jr.]
• [Illustration of Bruce Pivotal Caster.]
• Reprint of Dickenson Type Foundry ad/showing of Quaint Open and Quaint, 1890.
• A Plea for the Tramp Printer. [Reprints of articles by F. Marion Cole and Duncan F. Young, 1890]
• Typesetting Contest. [Nov. 9, 1890]
• [Portraits of compositors Peter Thienes and Leo Monheimer]
• Reprint of Golding & Co. ad showing their Standard Job Composing Stick.
• "... Purely An Inventor's Dream" [Typesetting machines]
• Woodcut of the Kastenbein Typesetter (1881).
• Advertisement for the Thorne Typesetting and Distributing Machine (1890).
• The 'Blower' Linotype. [with illustration]
• The New Form of Mergenthaler. [Preliminary review of "Square Base" Linotype]
• The Mergenthaler Linotype Printing-Machine. [1890 review of "Square Base" Linotype]
• [Illustration of the "Square-Base" Linotype.]
• The Rogers Typograph
• The "Triangle" Monotype Machine. [with illustration]
• Reprint of Hamilton Manufacturing co. Wood Type ad.
• Related Activity in the Industry in 1890. [Lighting, Power, the Point System, Familiar Names, Methods of Illustration, Typefounding]
• [Reprints of MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan advertisement for / showing of French Script and Stipple.]

• [Cover is an image of the form used to print the first page]
• Inside front cover: sketches by Vance Gerry from the Nevada Conference.
• Font Memories of Nevada City.
• Williamsburg Meet To Be July 10-12, 1992.
• A 1914 Contest: Linotype vs. Monotype.
• Ad for The Dale Guild / Theo Rehak.
• Lead Poisoning: Some Practical Observations.
• A Guy Who Wasn't Careful.
• Surprisingly Interchangeable [English vs. American Monotype equipment]
• Delineating a Few Differences.
• What Others Are Saying & Doing. [leters]
• Linotype Matrices Made by Italian Firm. [Simoncini]
• French Group Being Organized to Perpetuate Metal Typecasting.
• Death of Two ATF Members Noted. [Dan Driscoll, Owen Stout]
• Pondering Lanston's Shrouded History
• Centerfold: Casting and Showing of Goudy's Lombardic Capitals and 60pt Goudy Text by Rich Hopkins, using ex-Baltotype mats with non-kerning l.c. 'f'.
• Getting All the Lines to Justify. [Harry Wearn on the Comp. Caster]
• Duensings Off to Germany.
• Parrish Estimates 7,000 Ludlows Still in Use.
• How Harry Wearn Helped at Sycamore. [Jim Walczak]
• British Monotype Hot-Metal Operations to Be Separated, Relocated.
• Halbert Proposes to Complete Lanston's Type Specimen Book.
• Viewing Monotype Bembo Alongside Monotype Bembo. [interesting observations on changing taste in set]
• Dave's Fantastic Rust-Killing Remedy. [ Incorrect report of David C. Churchman's famed de-rusting solution]
• An 'Orphan Annie' Nearly 'Did Me In.' [Roger Frith]
• Old Wartime Mementos from a Type Foundry
• Three Unique Opportunities to Acquire Hot-Metal Equipment [subtitle: The Days When Equipment Was Abundant (And Inexpensive) Are Now Over!]
• The Front Cover. [explanation of kerned castings and the use of a "doghouse" mold on the Comp. Caster]

• 'Colonial Confab' Plans Ready for July.
• Don't Come to the ATF Conference Empty Handed!
• Bashed-In Matrices Can Be Repaired
• Saga of Rust Removal Advice Brings Embarassment. [Correction to Dave Churchman recipe given incorrectly in No. 15]
• A Visit to the Cabinet des Poinçons at the Imprimerie Nationale in Paris
• English Operator Reveals Lengthy Monotype 'Love Affair'
• Paul Duensing Reports Typefounding Museum Progress in Germany
• Letters.
• Corrections. [incl. type mortiser, not notcher]
• Tentative Conference Schedule. [Colonial Williamsburg]

• Report on 1992 Williamsburg Conference / Hot Time in Williamsburg.
• California in '94.
• Ad by Richard E. Huss, Bookbinder.
• Typecasters Stage Mini-Summit.
• [Showing of 30 pt Caslon Openface cast on a Thompson from 0.043 drive Thompson matrices copied by the TTM Co. from BB&S, in turn copied from G. Peignot's Le Moreau-le-Jeune.]
• John Dreyfus Defines Our Fellowship
• Inquiry by Frederick Scheider for information on a technical book on linecasters.
• Kelsey Company Bids Farewell. [and account of salvage operation]
• Casting a Fist. [casting a double pica fist from a matrix originally made for a hand mold, adapted in the mid 19th century for a pivotal type caster, and re/un-adapted for use with the Thompson]
• Warren Chappell. Recalling a Long Career in Type Design. ["Recalling Type Design In the Era Before 'Pictures of Printing'"]
• Advice on Operating a Thompson. [porous types, speed, temperature, cooling, and stop motion]
• On Monotype Composition Matrix Drives. [also history of the composition matrix and an illustration of the differences between American and English comp. matrices]
• Christmas Card Nets a Nasty Burn On My Arm / An Ounce of Prevention.
• Bob Ferguson Acquires Several Monotype Casters
• American Type Founders Ceases Operations.
• Duensing to Return to U.S.
• Notes from Fellow Typecasters. Incl.
  • [Source for lemon juice and vinegar rust removal recipe, rediscovered by David C. Churchman]
  • [Spare parts from the Van-Fos type foundry with Kent Kasuboske]

• A Painful Tale to Recount
• July Conference in California a 'Go'
• American Type Founders Company: A Troubled Report On Its Demise [with important photographs
• Odds 'n Ends Tell of ATF's Far-Flung History
• ATF Tools & Implements Preserved
• The Barth Was One Reason for ATF's Quality, But Matrices Also Played a Crucial Role
• Earliest Lanston Patent Books Saved
• On the Hardness of Type Metal (David W. Peat)
• Monumental Type 'Bible' Now Availalbe [McGrew]
• Lead Ain't Dead! [Note from Jim Rimmer]
• Long-Awaited Rehak Book is Published ( Practical Typecasting)
• Unique Monotype Fonts Aquired (John Eickhoff)
• Study Program for Typecasting Aspirants [Hopkins on acquiring materials]
• Lead Poisoning is Statistically Remote
• Our Readers Write!
• Jim Rimmer Uses Lanston Punches to Strike 'Goudy Bible' Matrices (by Jim Rimmer)
• [vintage Dave Peat ad]

• The Conference at Buena Park
• Dates Set for Charlotte Meeting
• The Linecaster Technical Session (John Kristensen)
• "Gone Home" (Obituaries)
• Dating Things Typographic
• English Preservation Efforts
• The First Monotype University (Paul Hayden Duensing)
  • It Was of Mythical Proportions (Lisa Beth Robinson)
  • It Took Me Five Seconds to Decide to Go (C. Christopher Stern)
  • The Epitome of Personalized Instruction (Howard Bratter)
  • A Time of Focused Enthusiasm (Dan Jones)
  • Rich's Postscript
• Matrices, Equipment For Sale
• On Reviving Cincinnati Initials (Howard Bratter)
• What's New from the Typecasters
• Correspondence
• Technical Matters
• Product for Preventing Type Rust
• Treating Metal Burns
• Comments (From Readers) on ATF Liquidation
• A Self-Contained Cooling System (Jim Walczak)
• Cutting Punches for Regulus (Dan Carr)
• The Joy of Taming a Thompson (John A. Hern, Jr.)
• The Pinmark Re-Emerges
• An Extremely Rare Lanston Matrix Case (Photo)
• Ripley's Linotype "Believe It Or Not"
• Mergenthaler Stamp Finally a Reality
• Dispelling Caslon Myths (Rich Hopkins)
  • Specimen Monotype Caslon 37
  • Specimen Monotype Caslon 137
  • Specimen Monotype Caslon 337
  • Specimen Stephenson-Blake Caslon Old Face
  • Specimen American Type Founders Castlon 471
  • Specimen Linotype Caslon Old Face
  • Specimen Ludlow True-Cut Caslon
  • Specimen Monotype Caslon 128
  • Specimen Adobe Caslon
  Caslon Resources and Notes
• The Nitty-Gritty Details of Typographic Production

• Charlotte Conference Soon Underway
• Every 1996 Conference Participant to Receive Keepsake Casting [with faux pinmark created by Paul Hayden Duensing for the Thompson caster]
• Keynote Speaker Owns Massive Collection of Foundry and Monotype Paraphernalia [Eckehart Schumacher-Gebler]
• About This Newsletter
• Operative Letterpress Museum [Salem, Oregon]
• Careful Who Gets Your Machinery
• Heard About the Linotype Stuck in a Tree? [Dr. James Eckman and Jim Walczak]
• [Bill] Bercuta Is a True Lino Expert
• Strong Need for American Controller Rolls
• A Very Unusual Typecasting Project [Multigraph type]
• Visit Two American Type Foundries in One Day? In 1996? [Quaker City Type Foundry and the Dale Guild Typefoundry]
• So How Valid Is the Claim About Superior Barth-Cast Type?
• Talking About an Unholy Mess! [Transportation problems with ex-Lanston materials from Hartzell to M&H]
• Back cover advertisement by David W. Peat

• Pilgrimage to Germany Set for Oct. 3-11 [not an ATF Conference]
• Just for Your ATF Archives - Looking Back at Charlotte Meet
• Auction Acquisition Has Colorful History [24pt Ray Shade]
• Correspondence [Betty Wearn, John Setk, Anthony Smith / Type Museum]
• Belated Thanks to Dave Peat [for cover of No. 20]
• Dusty Reyer Passes Away
• High Quads vs. Low Quads
• This Once Was A Keyboarding Exercise [causes for faults in Monotype casting]
• Next Meeting Set for California; Tentative Date: September, 1998
• Mini-Conference Held in W. Va.
• Quotation Quads - Can't Do Without 'Em!
• Recent ATF Revival Castings [Dale Guild]
• Canadian Dealer Sells Mono Mats [Don Black]
• My Thompson Pot Wouldn't Get Hot Enough [by John Hern]
• Mats for Old Keystone Initials Discovered [by John Hern]
• Who Designed Times New ROman? It May Not Be Stanley Morison
• Lino Mats Saved from Scrapper
• Classified advertisements
• A Commercial Phase Converter
• Dan Carr Revives ATF DeRoos
• Typecasting Wood Engravings
• Renewed Interest in Old Ways [Eric Holub at M&H in San Francisco]
• Newsletter Production Notes

• 20th Anniversary Meeting Set Oct. 2-4 [ATF Conference No. 11]
• Course Description for 'Monotype U' [by Gregory Jackson Walters]
• An ATF 'Twin' Found in Holland [by Paul Hayden Duensing, about Stichting Lettergieten 1983]
• Both Commercial and Home-Made 3-Phase Power Conversion Discussed
• Klensch Provides View of Asian Casting Machines [Chuck Klensch visiting Yauluen Typefoundry (Hong Kong), on the Universal Type Foundry (defunct), Hakko casters (from Japan), Koike caster literature (Japan), and the ZD201 (People's Republic of China)]
• Correspondence & Pertinent Comments: Warning about WD-40 from Bill Riess [Quaker City Type Foundry], Los Angeles Type Founders and F&S Type Founders to Merge in Bensenville, IL., Major Linotype Problems [Michael Koppa], Not Dead - He's Growing! [Tom Tolnay], Darrell Hyder Achieves Milestone, Compliment by Greg Walters on No. 21.
• Monotype Bulmer 462 [by Paul Hayden Duensing]
• Survey Says Typecasters Should Report Projects
• Sad News from England [closure of Bruce Anderton's shop]
• 'Monotype U' Gets Highest Praise [from Terrence Chouinard]
• Specimen Reviews [Hill & Dale Private Press and Typefoundry / Rich Hopkins, Dan Jones]
• Joint Purchase of Mono Keyboard Paper Proposed
• Chris Stern on Monotype University I
• Two Philippine Typefoundries Visited! [by Stan Nelson; Tri-Bel and Try-Deal type foundries]
• Press News - Notes from Bill Jackson
• Enlightenment on Photopolymer Cost
• Book Reviews: Elements of Typographic Style [Robert Bringhurst], A Gift of the Leaves [Dan Carr, composed in his hand-cut Regulus face], One Hundred Years of Making Type [English Monotype]
• Monotype Technical Corner
• Nelson Visits World's Only Pro Punchcutters [L'Imprimerie Nationale, Paris; Nelly Gable and Christian Paput]
• Intercepted Message from ATF... [item by William Duboc accompanying a 1933 ATF Specimen Book]
• [Charles] Mohr Reports Matrix Cutter in U.K. [Walter R. Sutter-Mathey - but the address given is in Switzerland]
• Method & Material More Important [note by Bob Barris]
• [Correction by Dave Peat: all type in No. 20 cover was metal (typo: text says No. 21, but clearly Rich meant No. 20)]

• Die Schriftgießerei / The Typefoundry
• Hot Metal Preservation in Germany
• Additional Notes by Leonard Spencer

• Comments & Acknowledgements [by the editor/printer]
• New Hampshire to be Site for 2000 Meet [Conference No. 12]
• Darmstadt Museum's Fate Resolved 'at Last Minute'
• Correspondence: [various, incl. Arvind Patel on the state of typefounding in India, web page by Tom Conlon for the ATF (no longer online and not archived by The Wayback Machine)]
• Internet Site for Typefounders [mailing list server by Rob Buchert; no longer online and not archived by The Wayback Machine]
• Marvelous Darmstadt Museum Narrowly Avoids Auction Block
• Components of Cherished Lino Turned Into Museum Display
• Do Caster Pots Ever Explode?
• German Linotypes Altogether Different [by Bruce Anderton; drawings by Eric Cope, as credited in ATFNL No. 27, p. 16]
• Dan Jones Finds a New Use for Ludlow Supersurfacer [to mill overheight type to type height]
• Building and Adjusting an American Monotype Bridge
• Making Mats for Euro Sign Accomplished by Monotype
• My Life with Type [by Mac McGrew]
• Historic Scotch Roman: A Design Originated by An American Printer?
• Fretting About a Thompson Choker Valve Gone Astray [by Phillip Driscoll]
• A Typecaster's Log [by David Bolton]
• Kastenbein's Typesetter [by Bo Berndal]
• For a Great Kastenbein Ending, You Must Read This Note
• Pittsburgh Newspaper Bids Farewell to the Composing Room
• Mono U III Was Something I Had to Do [by Mike Anderson]
• Student Outlines a Typical Day at Monotype University [by Dan Waters]
• A Seven-Year Dream of Type Fulfilled: Monotype U III [by Rob Buchert]
• 'Mac-Mono' Aids Newsletter Production [Monroe Postman's computerized Monotype composition system]
• Doing Things the Right Way: Fixing a 'Locked' Caster [by Jim Walczak]
• The Perils of Lead Just Not an Issue if Facts are Studied [By Stanley Nelson]
• Job Opening Announced at M&H in San Francisco

• Conference No. 12 (2000) announcement (Rindge, NH and Ashuelot, NH)

• Provo, Utah, Selected as Site for 2002 Conference [No 13]
• A 'Blackletter' Issue
• M&H Type Finally 'On the Move' [to the Presidio location]
• Two ATF Conferences in Retrospect [No. 11, Sunnyvale, CA and No. 12, Rindge, NH, by Rich Hopkins]
• True Value of a Conference Demonstrated by a Simple Conversation: On Matrices and on Type Metal [Jim Walczak and Dan Jones]
• The Survival of 16th Century Fell Types [by Martin Ould]
• Perhaps a Better Way to Dross a Pot
• To the Editor: Aligning Matrices [Ray Swinfield]
• [University of California Oldstyle / Californian showing]
• A Specimen of Californian
• Two Trivial Bits of History Regarding the American Lanston Monotype Company [Barrett Adding Machine, 'Quadruple' prototype caster and non-qwerty keyboard]
• More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Monotype Keyboards
• Living in the Monotype Factory [by Tara Benson, on the conversion of the Lanston Monotype factory to luxury loft residences]
• The Once-Thriving Typefounding Industry of St. Louis [by Robert Mulllen]
• [Reprint of Central Type Foundry's "St. Louis Series" of types, 1886]
• [Reprint of 'There is "Pie" in this "Pi"' by the Inland Type Foundry, on their Standard Line types, 1896]
• William Bright: A Rags to Riches Story [by Robert Mullen]
• Diary of Two Madmen [Alan Waring and Theo Rehak, cutting the B-42 types; photo of Theo at the Dale Guild Benton Engraving Machine, details of process]
• Follow-up to Newsletter Article on Scotch Roman
• [Reprint of Dickinson Type Foundry Scotch Roman specimen]
• How Much Did a New Model 31 Linotype Machine Cost in 1959?
• The Cost of New Matrices [Linotype and compatible; Aside: The article computes a value of $9,096. The "measuringworth.com" online calculator indicates that in 2021 this would be $84,000 if a Linotype were a commodity or $124,000 as produced by skilled labor]
• Depth of Drive Big Problem in Revival of Old Matrices [old foundry information via the late Dr. James Eckman]
• A First-Hand View of the Paige Compositor [informal visit by ATF members to the Mark Twain House]
• A Typographical Experiment in Blackletter [by Chris Manson]
• Notes on the Conventions of Early English Typographic Usage [by Chris Manson; see also a correction in ATFNL No. 27]
• A Specimen Showing Fourteen Point Cloister Black with Supplements and Modifications [Jim Walczak and Chris Manson]
• About the Baskerville Design Used Herin
• Typographical Experiment in Blackletter - Our Special Type-Making Procedure [by Jim Walczak, on sorts caster mold modification]
• Hermann Zapf Reports Status of German Museums
• Obituaries As They Used to be Written: A True 'Prince' of a Typefounder [on George B. Lothian, from 1866; see also the attribution of this to David Bruce, Jr. by Stephen O. Saxe in ATFNL No. 27, p. 16.]
• What Others Are Saying
• Fire ofr the Linecaster/Typecaster Debate
• Grandfather's Prejudices Need Reassessing! Intertype Slams Competition in Rare Ad
• [I believe this is a page set in the B-42 type]

• Utah Conference in June Detailed [No. 13]
• Things to Bring With You [to an ATF Conference]
• Mold Making at the Atelier Press & Typefoundry [hand mold making, by Stan Nelson]
• Mold & Matrix Making at Pratt Pressworks [hand mold making and matrix engraving (on a Gorton P1-2 pantograph), by Steve Pratt]
• Neil Giroux Is Also Working With Hand Mold
• The Saga is Ended: M&H Type is Relocated! [to the Presidio in San Francisco]
• Early English Typographic Usage - Correction [by Chris Manson]
• Practical Electrotyping Guide - How to Make Your Own Matrices [by Mike Anderson]
• Your Notes and Comments
• Golgonooza Foundry Acquires To Küstermanns
• Goudy's Californian
• Explanation of Monotype Terms [keybar, stopbar, wedge, matrix case]
• What Did Gutenberg Invent [by John S. Thompson (1872-1955), from a 1960 publication]
• Things Relevant to Gutenberg Are Simply Getting Out of Hand! [on current wave of lightly-informed theories about Gutenberg]
• Perhaps It's Time for a Typecasting Website? [typefounding.info; not currently online]
• 'Dressed' Ludlow Mats Can Be A Real Problem
• Casting Success [Jim Walczak]
• Students Give Insight Into Fourth Session of Monotype University [Paul Aken, Bob Magill, Dave Clinger]
• Four Books to Help You Keep Yesterday Alive! [including: Gerry, Vance. L. A. Type: A Concise History of Los Angeles Type Founders, Inc. (Pasadena, CA: Weather Bird Press, 2000).]
• Fixing a Water Leak on a Composition Caster
• Six Fellowship Associates 'Hang Up Their Aprons' [Obituaries for: Gale Sheldon, Phil Cade, Leonard Spencer, Ernie Lindner, Blaine Lewis, Fred Williams]
• Two Vintage Bruce Pivotals Available to the 'Right' User [ex-Kelsey machines once at the Smithsonian]
• Production Notes [for this issue]

• Lipzig Conference Set for September, 2004 [This Conference, No. 14, did not take place as scheduled. It was moved at the last minute to Terra Alta, WV and hosted there by Rich Hopkins.]
• ATF to Recieve APHA Award
• Mats Discovered for Early Private Design [by Rick von Holdt; three types by Ralph Fletcher Seymour from 1902, with links to Goudy and Robert Wiebking]
• 11 Kustermann Casters Found in Storage [by Sky Shipley; Castcraft machines; also note about a Rouse "rig for finishing rule," which is probably the Rouse type dressing bench now with the Printing Stewards (ex- Gregory Jackson Walters)]
• Monotype University Has Largest-Ever Class of Grads
• A Student's View of Monotype U 5 [by Sky Shipley]
• "I knew next to nothing ..." [Mono U 5 writeup by Scott King]
• "Everything that inspired me ..." [Mono U 5 writeup by Rebecca Gilbert]
• "Now is the time to feel, ..." [Mono U 5 writeup by Ian Schaefer]
• [Note of thanks for Mono U 5 by Bryce Knudson]
• Much Enthusiasm Generated by Provo Conference
• 100-Year-Old Century Design Still Thrives [Century Expanded]
• NA Graphics Fosters Suppot for Typefounding [update from Fritz Klinke]
• The Amazing Speed of Linotype 'Swifts' [by Pat Leary]
• Letters [Alan Waring on B-42 and beyond; James Parrish still servicing Ludlows on the road]
• Metal Fluxing Formula [from The Monotype Recorder]
• Ill-Fated APL Linecaster Celebrates 70th Birthday [census of surviving machines, bibliography]
• More Evidence that Linecasters Were a Major Investment
• The Last of the Old English Typefounders [review of Roy Millington's book on Stephenson, Blake]
• Electro Mat Making Article Put to the Test - And Passes [by Gregory J. Walters]
• Letter from John Cornelisse
• Reinventing the Types of the 1457 Psalter [by Mike Anderson; photopolymer patterns, initial work on a modified New Hermes pantograph, later work on a Deckel pantograph of unspecified model]
• Installing a Metal Feeder on a Thompson Caster
• Letter from Patrick Goossens
• A Conversation With My Mono Composition Caster
• [Don Black closing out Monotype materials holdings]
• Four Typecasting Projects of Note [ The Book of Mormon (Rich Hopkins for the Crandall Musuem of Printing History), The Carolina Observer and The Declarationof Independence (Rich Hopkins), and Walczak/Twain (see below)
• Walczak Casts Font for Smithsonian Printing Seminar [by Jim Walczak. 24-point Madamoiselle (Tommy Thompson, 1953), with showing, to re-create an 1887 edition of Twain's Innocents Abroad]
• Departures for That Big Composing Room in the Sky [Obituaries for: Alex Lawson. Dwight Agner. Bill Jackson. John Hern. Edmund Cutler. Lillian Worley.]

• Conference Re-scheduled to Sept. 3-5 [No. 14]
• Conference Travel Options are Limited
• Joint Conference Keepsake To Be Printed at Terra Alta
• Why the Leipzig Affair Was Scrapped
• Re-scheduled 2004 Meeting To Be 'Heavy on Machines'
• Local Driving Instructions [to Terra Alta]
• List of Equipment Available at 2004 Conference
• A New Approach to Technical Sessions
• Notes Regarding Previous Issues [of the ATFNL]
• American Type Founders' Immeasurable Contribution to Modern Typography
• The Effect of Composing Machines Upon the Typefounding Industry [reprint of an article by Henry Lewis Bullen for The Inland Printer, July 1924]
• [Showing and writeup of Goudy's Hadriano in composition]
• ATF Receives APHA's 2004 Institutional Laureate
• Setting the Back Knife on Linotype Machines [by Patrick J. Burns]
• A Monotype Keyboard Solution for Set Widths Over 12
• Another Problem: And Regarding Small Characters 'Pulling' Out of Position on their Bodies when Cast ...

• Make-Do Conference is Well Received
• Next Meeting to be Staged at Carson, California, Near L.A. [No. 15, 2006]
• Reviewing Work from Five Foundries [Red Dragonfly Press (Scott King), 24-pt Italian Oldstyle; Skyline Typefoundry [sic; Type Foundry] (Sky Shipley, Othello and Othello Inline; [At] Random Press & Typefoundry (Mike Anderson), 24-pt Vanity Fair; Pie Tree Typefoundry (Jim Rimmer), Duensing Titling; Gregory Jackson Walters, Paris Flash.
• The MOdel for Goudy Modern is Goudy Open
• Probing the Mysteries of Pumping Metal on a Monotype
• Monotype University VI Announced for June 2005
• The Choker Valve - A Different Set of Problems with the Thompson [by Sky Shipley; on the choker valve operation and casting porosity]
• Replacing Three-Phase On An English Comp Caster [by Dan Jones; but keeping the Varigear drive]
• Morris F. Benton's Design Work from Another Perspetive [Rick von Holdt]
• Dave Seat to Build Linotypes & Offer Detailed Training
• Directions for Using Mold Gun for Cleaning Waterways [reprinted from Lanston Monotype literature, with diagram]
• A Linograph Machine for Terra Alta?
• ATF Newsletter's First 30 Issues Are Indexed [with index, by Sky Shipley]
• A Young Newcomer's View of An ATF Conference [by Chris Chen]
• Fragments of Private 'Paradiso' Design Rescued [information from Stephen O. Saxe on Paradiso (circa 1934, aka Gregynog and Gwendolin) by Graily Hewitt and English Monotype after Johann Neumeister's Foligno (used in the 1470 edition of Dante's Divine Comedy)]
• Harold Berliner Reminisces After Sale
• Showing of Ludlow's Zephyr cast by Phil Driscoll
• 'It Was the Last Type Balto Ever Made' [by Jim Kapplin, with a postscript by Rich Hopkins]
• How I Blew Up My Thompson [by Sky Shipley]
• Paul Duensing's 'Italic Thompson' [unintentionally "slanted" typecast cut of a Thompson caster, cast by Dan Carr for Paul Hayden Duensing, due to pantograph adjustment problems in the matrix Duensing had made]
• Matrices Engraved for Ancient Hebrew [by Mike Anderson]
• King Ponders Casting Machine Mystries [Scott King]
• Mel Arndt Acquires Engraving Machine [Deckel pantograph of unspecified model]
• The Caster Op: A Lament by Leslie Wearn [via Duncan Avery]
• Issue 30 Production Notes and Acknowlegements

• Index to ATF Newsletters 1-30, by Sky Shipley, MS Works (.wks) original
• Index to ATF Newsletters 1-30, by Sky Shipley, OpenOffice conversion (.ods) conversion

• Carson Conference Has Somber Mood [No. 15; Type Museum, Smithsonian, L'Imprimerie nationale, Dale Guild]
• Next ATF Meeting Already Scheduled! [No. 16, hosted by Sky Shipley]
• A Tale of Three Matrix Holders [by Jim Walczak, for Monotype Type-&-Rule Casters]
• Additional Details on Mat Chamfering and Matrix Holder Components
• The First Fount of Johann Gutenberg [by Mike Anderson; he notes that his Deckle [sic, Deckel] pantograph was formerly in the possession of American Type Founders]
• Experiments with Bradley Combination Ornaments [including three from matrices made by Paul Hayden Duensing]
• Thoughts About Monotype University 6 [by Stuart Bradley]
• A Book Lover's Fantasy Come True - Typefounding, Printing, Bookbinding in the Dream-Like Atmospher of the Swiss Alps [Offizin Parnassia [Vättis], Hans Ulrich Frey and Stephan Burkhardt]
• Four New Books Which You Should Consider For Your Bookshelf [Southall, Printer's Type in the Twentieth Century; Mullen, Recasting a Craft: St. Louis Typefounders Respond to Industrialization ; Wallis, George W. Jones: Printer Laureate; Maravelas, Letterpress Printing: A Manual...]
• Sometimes Typefounders Make Mistakes Too! [by Phil Driscoll, on faults in a casting of 20 pt Privat by Bauer]
• Other Typecasting & Startup Activities Reported [Monroe Postman, John Setek, Paul Aken, Bill Welliver, Tom Parsons, Bob Magill]
• A Specimen of Tudor Black in 12 and 30 point, and 18 point [by Rich Hopkins]
• A Field Trip With a Goal: Make Some Type! [by Michael Anderson]
• Extending the Life of Worn Composition Mats
• Engraving a Printer's Flower [by Jim and Franziska Walczak; photopolymer patterns and a Preis pantograph, illustrated]
• How They Did It [unpacking a pattern of ornaments which used "stepped" (mortised) types]
• Fitting a Thompson Mat Holder with New Technology [by Ed Rayher, on using a dial indicator (called here a "depth micromter," which is actually something else) to measure vertical alignment]
• Skyline Type Foundry Marks Two Years of Progress [by Sky Shipley]
• Reports from Lanston in 1942
• Update on Procedures for Electrodepositing Mats [by Christopher Manson]
• Let's Play with Some Monotype Flowers [Rich Hopkins]
• Zapf's Melior in American Matrices [by Rich Hopkins]
• Casting of Menhart Design Made from New Matrices [by Jim Walczak]
• Lanston Says Mold Polish is Bad
• Will Change in Your Status Endanger Your Casting Equipment Collection
• We Have Stolen a Trademark ATF Diligently Sought to Protect
• Casting Loose English Comp Mats with American Equipment
• A Brass Mold Shim - What Is It Used For? [information from Lew Mitchell]
• Canadian Letterpress Event Very Well Received [Don Black]
• Our Ever-Changing 'Guard' [Obituaries for: Vance Gerry, Bill Jackson, Vic Moitoret, Bill Royall, Jerry Killie]
• "The Case Went Against Him" Over 100 Years Ago [cartoon comparing Monotype keyboarding with hand composition]

• Celebrating the Antique Typecast Cut
• Conference Near St. Louis Sept. 11-14 [No. 16, hosted by Sky Shipley]
• State of Our Typecasting Fellowship [and report on Henry Morris' The Private Typecasters]
• [Reproductions (in small scale) of five pages from Morris' book, by Stan Nelson, Michael Bixler, Gregory Jackson Walters, Phil Driscoll, and Jim Walczak]
• What Kind of Printer Was Benjamin Franklin?
• On Smelting and Cleaning Type Metal [extracts from Lanston Monotype Company Bulletins 131 and 138, with an illustration from MacKellar, Smiths, and Jordan's One Hundred Years]
• Instructions for Casting Machine Installers [Lanston Monotype]
• Cancer Claims Chris Stern, A True Letterpress Artist
• Greg Walters Acquires Equipment from Castcraft / Neon / Typefounders of Chicago [in July 2008]
• Monotype Composition Matrices: A Preliminary Discussion [Rich Hopkins, in great detail and including large comp]
• Display Matrices for Individual Casting
• Paul Duensing Touched us All [obituary]
• Be Patient When Starting Up a Caster
• Casting "Mortised" Characters
• Mac McGrew Truly Knew His Type! [obituary]
• Master of the Monotype Computer Interface [visit by Harry McIntosh of Scotland]
• What Not to Do When Repairing a Thompson [by Jim Rimmer]

• Ohio Meeting Set for June 24-27, 2010 [No. 17; this date is correct - Greg Walters' "Save the Date" postcard contained what must have been the only typo of his life and said "July"]
• Mobile Typefoundry Demonstrated at APA Wayzgoose [Sep. 20, 2009, coinciding with the Midwest and Great Northern Printers' Fair]
• A Private Press Achievement of Greatest Proportions [Jim Rimmer's edition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]
• History of Nuernbergter-Rettig Typecasting Machine And Its Inventor Revealed in Obscure 1916 Journal [article from Typesetting Machine Engineers' Journal (April 1916), via the estate of Paul Hayden Duensing. Aside: Correspondence published as an advertisement by Lanston Monotype in The Typographical Journal (Vo. 36, No. 3, March 1910) shows that the T. M. E. J. existed in at least 1910 and says that it was a private publication of James Crombie and not affiliated with the Typographical Union No. 6 (NY)]
• High Water Fails to Dampen Spirits at Grafton [report on ATF Conference No. 16]
• A Newcomer's Impression of an ATF Conference [by Brian Ferrett]
• Engraving Monotype Mats on a CMC [sic, CNC] Milling Machine [Mel Arndt]
• Dale Guild Typefoundry Reports Vigorous Activity
• Soliciting Those Doing Typecasting [confusion over "casting" for motion picture industry]
• Adjusting the Monotype Bridge
• A German Schriftgießer Takes On Monotype and the New World [by Karl Rathgeb]
• Tools of a German Typefounder [Matrix milling holders/gauges, Depth Gauge, Alignment Tool, Tapered set measuring gauge ("Winkelhacken"), "Gauge for Checking Set Width" (this is misidentified; it is a matrix maker's Turning Gauge)]
• Our Changing Guard [Obituaries for: David Holmes, John Eickhoff, Gerald Giampa, Thomas R. Volker, Gordon Sullivan]
• Step-by-Step Procedure in Developing a Border Matrix Set [ornament design by Rich Hopkins and Jim Walczak]
• Gerald Giampa, 1950-2009 [remarks in tribute]
• 19th Century Type Designers Featured in New Book [review by David M. Norton of the Saxe/Johnston/Loy Nineteenth-Century American Designers & Engravers of Type ]
• The Intertype Composing Stick [by John Finch]
• What Did New Intertype Machines Cost in 1971?
• Some Typecasting Speculation and Other Obscure Information [Deliberately nicked matrices, pot drossing, Monotype pump thread compound, formula for Monotype metal, reasons for bad faces on type; most material here from Lanston Monotype]
• Thompson Tech [IV?]
• Typographical Union Contract Gives Glimpse Into Lino, Mono Operator Duties, Wages in 1962 [by Pat Leary]
• Replacing Paper Tower Leathers on Comp Caster
• Showing of Monotype Matrices EExpanded; Proprietary English Mats Revealed [by David Bolton, with illustrations of English mats; Stephen Austin, SASMAT, LUDLOW]
• Matrix Making at Stephen Austin and Sons; Work Leads to Merger with Ludlow, U.S. Closure [by John Harrison, showing large electrodeposited Ludlow mats]
• Simple High-Tech Attachment Aids the Keyboard Operator [assembly elevator alarm, by Michael Langford (Candela Press)]
• Very Extensive Article Published on the Küco Caster [article by Dan Carr in Matrix 27]
• Smith Takes on Thompson; Casting Done at Skyline [David Smith]
• John Easson Takes On Monotype Casting Machine [in Scotland]
• Expanding the Storage Applications of 9" x 12" Galleys [by Stan Nelson]
• Who Said Hand Molds Were Extinct? [on Stan Nelson's mold making, illustrating several]
• Lead Poisoning Hysteria Bans Old Children's Books

• Excitement Mounts for Piqua Conference [No. 17, hosted by Gregory Jackson Walters]
• ATF Conference History [list, nos. 1-17]
• Typecast Souvenir To Be Distributed [by Dave Peat, at the Conference]
• Extremely Varied Program Schedule is Developing
• [Reference to an ATF website no longer online, atf-hotmetal.com]
• Brief Notes Regarding Your Fellow ATF Associates
• Wanted: Monotype Composition Caster [by Jeff Howard Meade; followup: He acquired two machines from Gregory Jackson Walters. In 2016 he sold these to Dr. David M. MacMillan (CircuitousRoot)]
• Rare 2-in-1 Linotype Models Explained [by Patrick Leary]
• Dale Guild Successors Take Helm [Micah Slawinski Currier and Daniel Gardiner Morris]
• Farewell to Our Talented Friend Jim Rimmer
• On Assuming the Legacy of Jim Rimmer [by Jason Dewinetz]
• Typesetting Machine Introduced in 1937 [the Econo-Typesetter by Econotype, Inc. of Dayton, OH]
• Thoughts on Assuming the Legacy of American Type Founders [by Micah Slawinski Currier]
• 80-Year-Old Baskerville Revival Sees New Life
• Harold Berliner, Well-Known Private Typefounder, Dies [Aside: Berliner wrote the ATF bylaws, but perhaps more famously co-wrote the California version of the "Miranda Warning." At the Conference, Tom Parsons contributed a lovely keepsake in his memory which reads, simply: "You have the right to remain silent."]
• Studying the Bulmer Design
• Looking at Type Over the Past 40 Years - and Now [by Stan Nelson]
• Complex Bruce Rogers Assembly Re-created in Metal [by Arie Koewelyn and Rich Hopkins, with a beautiful photo of the form]
• Bruce Rogers Was A Madman
• Mixing Casting from Both English and American Matrices
• Casting 120 pt. Type in a Hand Mold [by Greg Walters, concerning his 120 pt bench-mounted hand mold acquired from Arvind Patel of the India Type Foundry, Ahmedabad, India]
• [The previous article also contains an image of Greg's page for Morris' The Private Typecasters]
• Comparing Sources of Type: Foundry vs. Monotype [by Mike Anderson]
• A Genuine Factory-Trained Linotype Machinist [Patrick J. Burns]

• At Piqua There Was Something for Everyone [Conference No. 17 report]
• Next ATF Conference To Be Hosted In Portland, Oregon [No. 18 (2012)]
• A First Timer's Perspective - What's An ATF Conference Really Like? [by Jim Daggs, with photographs of Carl Schlesinger, Hal Sterne, and Jim Daggs]
• The Mergenthaler Extravanganza Which Follows
• Skyline Type Foundry Acquire Long-Established Barco/F&S Foundry
• 125 Years Of The Linotype. 1886-2011. An Anniversary Pictorial by Jim Daggs [This pictorial was printed by Daggs' Ackley Publishing Company]
  • The "Blower" Linotype. 1886. [from a patent drawing]
  • Introduction [by Jim Daggs]
  • The Linotype Line [text account of Linotype models, from the Model 1 through the Elektron, with an illustration of a Model 24, by Jim Daggs]
  • Reprints from a Mergenthaler Linotype salesman's product information book (circa 1917), including, with illustrations: Models 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (low-base, pre-Blue Streak), 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, K, L, Lead and Rule Caster, Ludlow Typograph (sold briefly by Mergenthaler)
• Goodbye to Don Turner & Hal Sterne
• Brief Notes from Throughout the Foundry [need for Monotype keyboard paper, death of Dr. Thomas (Thom) Hinckley, 500 years of printing in Scotland, short notes from Gale Mueller, John Kristensen, and David M. MacMillan]
• Composition Casters Available [Jim Walczak, Jamie Syer]

• Portland Conference Is Ready to Go! [No. 18]
• Spoof on Burn Treatment Dismissed [Flour is an Internet hoax]
• Where've We Been? What's Been Happening? [Rich Hopkins' book Tolbert Lanston and the Monotype . Obituaries: Monroe Postman, Dann Carr, Gertraude Benöhr. Skyline Type Foundry move to Arizona, Thompson Tech V, Welliver computer interface for the Monotype Composition Caster.]
• William Morris quotation on Fellowship
• Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible
• 72-point Lombardic Caps alternate H [John Johnson]
• Adjusting the Composition Caster's Bridge
• Testimony to the Advantages of a Monotype Computer Interface [Bill Welliver's]
• Fate oif Huge Working Museum in Leipzig Explained
• Short News Notes: [ATF] Bulmer Date Moves Back to 1951, Article on Haas Type Design, Information on Intertypes, Kennerley Beginnings]
• Is This the Last-Remaining Typefoundry in Mexico? [Tipos y Estadisticas, Mexico City. Super Caster, Giant Caster, several Composition Casters (as sorts casters), Composition Caster (no longer running), Elrod, four Koike casters.]
• It's a Young Lady Running an Intertype? Look Again! [by Jim Daggs, on Lucy Weilein keyboarding at an Intertype using a Kindle on the copy stand]

• Site of Next Conference: Salem, N.H. [No. 19]
• 'Encore Edition' of Monotype U Set for August [Mono U VIII]
• Turning Ancient Coptic Handwriting Into Type [by Mike Anderson; computer and photopolymer for patterns
• A Thompson Platform for 'Grown-Up' People [by Sky Shipley]
• Logotypes: An Old Idea, But Not So Long Ago [casting logotypes from Linotype matrices on the Thompson, Monotype flat mat logotypes from Empire Type Foundry (via Sky Shipley)]
• Persons' Words-O'-Type (from Empire Type Foundry spcimen book No. 19 (1926), via Sky Shipley)]
• A Chance Reacquaintance with Baltotype
• A Peek Into Baltotype
• Baltotype Legacy Outside of Lanston Monotype
• Athena [at Baltotype and digitally via P22]
• Ask John Thompson [by Sky Shipley, on breaking the Thompson Piston Lever a69TC1T, with drawing by Dr. David M. MacMillan]
• Studying the Ancient Legacy of Nicolas Jenson
• Showing of Jenson Oldstyle of 1893 [This requires some untangling. McGrew says that Jenson Oldstyle was designed by J. W. Phinney and cut by John F. Cumming in 1893. Phinney had been a controlling partner in the Dickinson Type Foundry of Boston (Phelps, Dalton & Co.); in 1893 this was a part of American Type Founders. By 1894 it had been merged with the Boston Typefoundry into what became known briefly as ATF "Foundry A" (Boston). Rich's showing says that the matrices he used (in 2013) had been electrodeposited "nearly 120 years ago" (2013 - 120 = 1893, so perhaps 1894) from Phinney's (thus, Foundry A) casting but that these matrices had been produced by "the Conner Typefoundry of New York." This would have been ATF Foundry B, formed from the merger of James Conner's Sons (the United States Type Foundry) in NY and, by 1894, Benton, Waldo & Co., formerly of Milwaukee.]
• Showing of Jenson Oldstyle of 1910 [Lanston Monotype]
• Showing of Cloister Oldstyle [M.F.Benton and Theo Rehak]
• Showing of Centaur [Bruce Rogers, cast from mats engraved by Robert Wiebking]
• Showing of Italian Oldstyle [Goudy, 1924]
• Unidentified showing
• Eusebius [Middleton, 1941; set on the Ludlow by Phil Driscoll]
• Letterpress Production [notes for this issue]
• Showing of Nicolas [Russell Maret, engraved and cast at The Dale Guild]
• Four Users Compare Notes At English 'Interface Meeting' [Welliver Interface; Ed Denovan (not Denovian), Nick Gill, Andrew Dolinski, Patrick Goossens; reported by Ed Denovan]
• Our 2012 Portland Meeting Reviewed [by Sara Wrzesinski]
• Thorough Cleaning Can Fix Fouled Molds
• Very Rare Monotype Keybar Cleaner Available
• New Key Tops Available for Linecaster Keyboard Renovation [the lathe Michael Langford's "CP Tops" project. Update: I (DMM) purchased this product line (still in development) from Michael shortly before his death. I did not manage to do anything with it, so I have passed it on to Dave Seat (who now owns the complete rights and surviving materials.)]
• Dale Guild Foundry Pulling Up Stakes! [Notes on Russel Maret's Gremolata and Cancellaresca Milanese; proposed move to Utah.]
• Typefounding: An Update from Germany [via Lars Schwarz]
• Short Bits, Obits, and Editorial Notes
  • Rich's Tolbert Lanston and the Monotype
  • Pat Taylor, A Founder! [obituary] [NOTE to self: This has a 1978 photo with a pot which looks a LOT like a Nuernberger-Rettig pot]
  • A Youth Scanning Monotype [On Dr. David M. MacMillan's scans; as this issue went to press I was just turning 51 - perhaps youth begins at 50?
  • Henry Morris Closes Shop [Bird and Bull Press]
  • What About the Intertype? [also includes a photograph of the "experimental department" of the Linograph Company (Davenport, Iowa) in the 1920s]
  • Intriguing Features Offered By MacTronic Monotype Interface [Harry McIntosh's interface, not to be conflated with Monroe Postman's "Mac-Mono" (Macintosh computer - Monotype) interface]
  • Comments I Like to Receive [from Gale Mueller]
  • Fortieth Anniversary [of Darrell Hyder's Sun Hill Press]
  • Mike Denker's Passing [obituary]
  • Long-Distnace Selling
  • Paul Quyle is Gone [obituary]
  • Who Emptied My File Cabinet? [computer troubles]
  • New Thompson Tech Sessions
  • The Mailman Wins This One
  • A Word About Page Numbering [problems with InDesign]
• The Future We All Are Up Against [by Tim Hawley]

• Aug. 13-17 Dates Set for the 2014 Conference.
• Was M. F. Benton Truly a Type Designer? (Rick von Holdt).
• Participants Review Thompson Tech VI.
• Rumor Control Regarding the Dale Guild Typefoundry.
• Thompson Casting Using English Square Mats (Bob Magill).
• Short Notes about Our Typecasting Acquaintances.
• Mike Anderson: Its Tough Saying Goodbye (Rich Hopkins).
• Book Advertisement: Tolbert Lanston and the Monotype. [note by DMM: You need this book!]
• Mixing U.S. & English Equipment.
• Hot Type As Seen In '76 (Paty Taylor).
• Craw Clarendon Book Compared.
• Octavian Font Revived.
• A Little Background on New Clarendon.
• Clarendon Cousins (Specimen Showing).
• Printing and Casting Tricks of the Tade.
• Photo of Monotype University 8 Participants.
• A Student's Report on Mono University 8 (Joshua Steward).
• Carl Nudi, Long-Time Hot Metal Man, Learns Monotype (Carl Nudi).
• He Loved Exposure to the Welliver Interface (Rob LoMascolo).
• Linecasting: Is There A Chill in the Air?
• Nasty Burns & Other Stupid Tricks.
• Milling Linotype Mats for Thompson Casting (Sky Shipley).
• Downsizing, Selling Big List of Mats, Resolutions.
• Mike Anderson's Greatest Typographic Achievement.
• Reproduction: Fragment of the World Judgment.

• August Conference Program Promises Variety [ATF Conference No. 19]
• Glimpses of the 2014 Conference Program
• Things You Should Do To Get Ready For the Conference
• Photos of Items You're LIkely to See at the Conference [including an Intertype Fotosetter matrix and a rule casting hand mold by Stan Nelson]
• Job Opening at Arion Press in San Francisco
• Pondering Monotype's 18-Unit EM [by Rich Hopkins]
• An Update from the C. C. Stern Type Foundry [by Jeff Shay]
• A Type Designer Mystery: What Came of Bentley Raak? [Varityper typeface designer]
• News from Our Associates [including William Bentley on cutting matrices and microscopes, Bob Mullen on Con Curren and railroad logos, an a foolishly optimistic note by David MacMillan]
• A Curious Mix of Old & New Technologies [Bradley Hutchinson's use of an iPad with a Monotype alignment gauge]
• Mising & Sorting Various Type Metals [by Rich Hopkins and Jason Dewinetz]
• The Woes of Losing a Remelt Furnace [by Mike Coughlin]
• A Casterman's Corner / Second Take; Sabotaged by a Careless Operator Long Ago [by Rich Hopkins]
• Mike Anderson Matrix Sale a Stunning Success
• Bob Mullen Digs Out Obscure History of Making of Brass Type in the U.S.A. [review of A SHort History of Brass Type in America
• On Moving from One Obscure Place to Another - with Type, Press, Grand Piano, and All!

• 2014 Conference a Great Success
• A Visitor Checks Us Out (Walter Colby)
• Our Host, Frank Romano
• Casting Cooper Black as Composition (Mark Sarigianis)
• A Common Thread Is Discovered (Mark Knudsen)
• Things that are Better about Intertype (Don Black)
• Response to Question: Benton Himself Claims Design Credit (Patricia Cost)
• A Solution when Large Type Letters 'Cave In'
• Risking Life & Limb for 120-Point Type (Greg Walters)
• Carl Schlesinger, Famed Linotyper, Dies at 88
• Desire for 'Best Image' for a New Digital Font (Richard Kegler)
• Specimen: Cloister Initials (Greg Walters)
• Specimen: Five Initial Fonts & MOrtised Caslon Italic Caps (Greg Walters)
• Casting and Composing White Space
• Goudy's Lost Companion (Richard Mathews)
• Specimen: 14 pt. Companion Old Style & Italic (Richard Mathews)
• Specimen: 36 pt. Companion Old Style & Italic (Richard Mathews)
• Albert Schiller's 'Art of the Machine Age' (Amelia Hugill-Fontanel)
• Specimen: The Antique Shop (Albert Schiller)
• Specimen: Various Thompson Castings (Bob Magill)
• Diverse Fonts Cranked Out On a Thompson
• Why this Showing of Artscript?
• Specimen: 18, 36 & 48 pt Artscript (Rich Hopkins)
• Specimen: 24 & 60 pt. Artscript (Rich Hopkins)
• Two Ways Stereotyping Saved the Day
• The Monotype 'Facilitator': Bill Welliver
• Mixing New Type with Sorts Cast Before 1900 (Jim Meagher)
• Photo of Jim Meagher Form
• Adding a Counting Device to the Thompson (Sky Shipley)
• Moving a 60-Point Barth Typecaster (David MacMillan)
• A Familar Latin Quote from Type Specimen Books (Steve Watts)
• A Composing Room Like You Never Ever Saw
• Ask John Thompson: Flash on the Side of Letters (Sky Shipley)
• Mystery English Matrix Holder(s)? (Jim Walczak)
• Short Tidbits and Editorial Notes
• In Operation 100 Years (M&H Type)
• Quite a Supercaster Haul from South Africa (Jason Dewinetz)
• Typographic History from Two Perspectives (Rich Hopkins)
• The Business of Typefoundry Amsterdam [review] (David MacMillan & Patrick Goossens)
• On Receiving a Da Vinci Printing Press
• Thompson Tech Graduates Four New Experts
• Chasing the Identity of a Printer's Cut
• Pondering Find of Old Plates

• Celebration! Vibrance of Craft Is Confirmed
• Down and Out In Philadelphia and Salfords [by Dan Jones]
• Three Jim Rimmer Designs May Be Re-cast [Alex Widen: Fellowship 24pt, Nephi Mediaeval 18pt, Juliana Oldstyle 18pt]
• Editing Now Underway on Film Titled 'Pressing On' [by Erin Beckloff, producer and co-director]
• Revival Typecasting Was Our Beginning [American Type Founders and Stevens (Steve) L. Watts, Harry Wiedemann, Williams Engineering matrix making, Charles Broad / "Typefounders of Phoenix"]
• [Announcement of an article on Edward H. Denby's types; this did not appear]
• This Issue's Cover Explores Use of Type Picture Font [Meadow Border, Arboret No. 2]
• What Are All These Display Ads About?
• Callling John Thompson: Trouble with Nozzle Backsquirts [by Sky Shipley]
• Database of 19th Century Types Released [by Stephen O. Saxe; the Jane W. Roberts / Steve Saxe Database of American Typeface Design Patents]
• The Resurrection of Troyer Ornaments [by Sky Shipley]
• My Last Adventure with David Johnston [by Mark Sarigianis]
• David J. Johnston [brief obituary]
• A Visit to The Press & Letterfoundry of Michael and Winifred Bixler [by Gregory J. Walters]
• On Cleaning a Ludlow Coolant Tank [by Phil Ambrosi (not "Ambrosia")]
• Ad/notice for the James L/ Parrish book The Ludlow Trouble Shooter's Guide available from Dave Seat.
• Wonderful Memories of Dave Churchman [by Rich Hopkins]
• Ad/notice of the availability of Monomatic II casters and keyboards [by Rich Hopkins; these are now with CircuitousRoot / Dr. David M. MacMillan]
• August ATF Conference Is A 'Go' [No. 20, Wells College / Bixlers / R.I.T. Cary / Virgin Wood Type]
• Travelogue of England & Europe: Whirlwiind Visits to Letterpress Hot Spots [Rebecca Gilbert and Brian Bagdonas]
• This Man Knows His Heidelbergs [by Jim Daggs]
• How the Dale Guild Foundry Got to Belgium [by Patrick Goossens]
• So You Say Casting Type Is A Piece of Cake? [by Sky Shipley]
• [Index of the "Reports" / display ads in this issue]
• Typeset messages throughout:
  • "Thoughts About a Dubious Plan, Some Ten Years Later" (The Chestnut Press & Type Foundry, H. William Welliver III)]
  • Swamp Press: Benton Matrix Engraving by Swamp Press (Ed Rayher)
  • Monumental Type Foundry (Bob Magill)
  • "Language is the expression of thought..." (Firefly Press, John Kristensen)
  • Irish Hills Type Foundry (Phillip Driscoll)
  • C. C. Stern Type Foundry
  • "Monotype Trivia" (Pygment Press, Dan Jones)
  • Ghost Ranch Horizon combination ornaments (The Atelier Press & Letterfoundry, Stan Nelson; cast by Skyline Type Foundry, Sky Shipley)
  • "When you see this ad, ..." (anonymous)
  • Skyline Type Foundry LLC (Sky Shipley)
  • "Down in The Arkansas" (Shooting Star Press, John Horn)
  • "Traditional Letterpress Design and Craftsmanship." Nine-18-Thousandths Press (Lawrence R. Peterson)
  • "A Rich MOuse in the Village with Companions in Tampa" (Tampa Book Arts Studio, Univ. of Tampa Press (Richard Mathews)
  • [Typeset "Photomicrograph of Printing Metal"] (Patrick Reagh Printers)
  • "Keeping Metal Type and Letterpress Alive ..." (Jim Daggs)
  • The Quarto PRess (John B. Easson)
  • "Linotype World" (Michael E. Coughlin)
  • "A Truly Unique Heritage" (Ron Hylton)
  • The Press of Robert LoMoscalo
  • "The earliest printers used limited numbers of founts..." (The Atelier Press & Letterfoundry, Stan Nelson)
  • Klingspor Fraktur / Palatino & Diotima (Peter+Joyce Schultz)
  • PAST [Peat and Sons Typefoundry] (David W. Peat)
  • "What is Literary Publishing For?" (Gaspereau Press, Andrew Steeves)
  • Sycamore Press & Typefoundry (Jim and Franziska Walczak)
  • "Letterpress is Alive and Healthy in Portland, Oregon" (Ivan Snyder)
  • "Helping Letterpress Grow in Education..." (Erin Beckloff)
  • Stumptown Printers Worker Cooperative (Brian Scott Bagdonas and Rebecca Gilbert)
  • Press Eremus (Timothy Holter)
  • We are considering replacement..." (John and Nancy Jane Johnson)
  • "Thank You, Mr. Hopkins" (Chris Paul)(
  • The Papertrail, Handmade Paper & Book Arts (Kevin Martin)
  • [colophon] "Lightly Touching On the Baskerville Design (Hill & Dale Private Press and Typefoundry, Rich Hopkins)
  • 144pt on 120pt eagle ornaments and Stymie Bold Inline Titling cast by Gregory Jackson Walters

• San Francisco Conference Aug. 24-26, 2018 [Conference No. 21]
• 2016 TF Conference Report Supplanted by Death of Lynda Hopkins
• An Exhaustive Study of British Monotype [review of Slinn/Carter/Southall. History of the Monotype Corporation]
• Cooper Black: For far-sighted printers wiht near-sighted customers [showing/ad by Jessie Reich, Three Ton Bridge Foundry]
• Behind the Cooper Black Page [by Rich Hopkins]
• Musings from John Kristensen on Casters & Projects [Firefly Press]
• A Gala Celebration of a New Letterpress Film: "Pressing On"
• Interest in Hot Metal Typecasting Is Stirring Overseas Too [Dam Ca, Vietnam; Manuel Diogo, Portugal; Pradeep Sebastian, India
• Typographic Evolution: Considering the Great Human Effort Involved [Karl Rathgeb, Westcott & Thompson typographers, Intertype Fotosetter, Monotype Filmsetter]
• Big Claims of '52 ATF Ad Were Never Fulfilled
• My Failed Efforts to Reclaim a Vietnamese Border [Viet Hung Type Foundry, Saigon. Reference to an Iwahashi casting machine (Japan)]
• Direct Result of "Pressing On" Movie Debut: Enthusiast Finds, Buys Machines [Larry K. Johnson]
• Source for "This is a Printing..." Parody Discovered
• Quaker City Typefoundry Closed; Equipment in Limbo
• Simple Worn Part Fouls Line Justification Accuracy
• Did ATF Cause the Death of Victorian Typography? [Distinctive Typography (1918)]
• Start With A Sketch and A Composing Stick
• A Case Study in Combining Ornaments
• Futura 90th Birthday
• Manipulating An Old Font for "Modern Eyes"
• A Plot to Limit New Type Designs [National Board of Printing Typefaces, 1930s]
• On the "Feel" Of LInotype Keyboards
• Revisiting the Subject of Monotype Matrix Wear
• On Cleaning Matrices
• Enduring Explosions and Other Frustrations In The Typefoundry
• Compositype: The Success of a Failed Machine [by Dr. David M. MacMillan; this is an abridged version of my original paper]
• A Radical New Way to Make Matrices [by Gregory Jackson Walters' milling many matrices from a single sheet of brass, by Stichting Lettergieten 1983]
• A Very Detailed Study of Historic Granjon Ornaments [review of Vervliet, Granjon's Flowers]
• Sterling Type Foundry Adds New Equipment [by Bob Magill]
• Bringing A Comp Caster Back to Life [by Jan Jones]
• A Shop "Invasion" to Match Your Best Fantasy [Dan Jones visit to Rich Hopkins]

• Conference Heads to Wisconsin [22nd ATF Conference, intended for 2020; due to COVID this did not happen as planned and finally became an online Conference in 2021]
• What Should You Bring To a Typecasting Conference?
• Explaining Our 250-Year Cover
• "Abel Buell" [Re-setting based on the text of Abel Buell's 1768 trade card set by Rich Hopkins in a style from the 1920s]
• Origin of the Lariat Type Design Is Revealed [by Sky Shipley; Charles Broad]
• Static Atrocities Remind Us of What We Seek to Do [on the static display of type machinery]
• Using Spray Paint to Fix a Matrix [by Dan Jones]
• Giant Caster Restored, Again Making Type [by Larry Johnson]
• The Amazing Resiliency of These Old Typecasting Machines
• [Brief note by Alex Widen on Jim Rimmer's capabilities as a maker]
• Caution to Type Users: Take Extreme Care When Adding New Type to an Old Case of Type [1936 ATF Change of Nick notice]
• Secrets Unveiled as Monomatic Machine is Disassembled [poking at a Monomatic II caster as Rich Hopkins, Kylian Wrzesinski, and I prepared the two Monomatic II casters at Rich's for transport to CircuitousRoot
• Parts Sought for Both Giant and Thompson [Larry Johnson]
• Francis Keehn's Milwaukee Type Foundry [by Bob Mullen]
• Hysteria Over 'Lead Type' is Unfounded
• Scientific Test of Type Metal Alloys Conducted [PIXE metallurgical analysis by John Risseeuw; aside: some of his results differ significantly from XRF results on the same type specimens conducted earlier by Mark Turpin]
• Casting Machine Operation: Another Trip Down A Blind Alley
• Mystery Solved: Who Wrote Early Lanston Books [Chris Wasshuber's argument for Edward Gallaway]
• Specimen of the Smallest Metal Type Ever Made [by Tim Hawley Henri Didot's 'Non Plus Ultra']
• Practical Typesetting Demonstration for Shop Visitors
• Pat Reigh Has Brush with Human Anatomy [typographical error cause by stuck pins in a Monotype composition caster
• Thompson Tech VIII Completed at Skyline Type Foundry [by Larry Johnson, Al Zavar, Paul Maravelas
• Extremely Rare Lead & Rule Attachment Revealed [for Monotype "Type-&-Rule" caster, by Ed Rayher]
• A New Kid on the Block - and He's Really Getting Into It! [Tom Colson, including CNC matrix engraving and electroforming of matrices]
• Art of Composition Matrix Making is Rediscovered [by Russell Maret, on his collaboration with The Type Archive for his "Hungry Dutch" face]
• Typography Extends Well Beyond the Alphabet [showing of ornaments in composition, by Rich Hopkins]
• On Using Ornaments [by Rich Hopkins]
• Stupid Thompson Tricks from Skyline Type Foundry
• On Stepping Aside [Rich Hopkins announces his retirement; this did not occur]
• Once Thought Lost, Historic Mats are Found [by Sky Shipley]
• The Economis Magazine Notes Rediscovery of Letterpress [from George Hamilton]

• Epigraph, "Fellowship," by William Morris
• July 2022 Conference is A GO! [see note above; it did not happen]
• A Note of Thanks to Our Wisconsin ATF Hosts [concerning Conference No. 22, held as an online event in 2021]
• The Future of Our Fellowship [by Richard L. Hopkins]
• Standing Corrected, But Not Without a Fight [variations in typecases]
• Everything Has A Story [with showings of Bell (American Monotype No. 402, English Monotype No. 341)]
• The Width of Type Bodies [Rich Hopkins on Monotype Composition Caster wedges]
• Why Not Try the Easy Solution First [details of Monotype maintenance]
• Lucky Guy Uses Wrong Wedge; Opts to Use the Type Anyhow
• The Joy of Building Repetitive Arrangements of Metal Flowers
• A Mexican Type Foundry Seeks a Replacement Pump Body
• Move That Heavy Machine Yourself?
• Former Typefoundry Is Now A Classy Air B&B [by Jim Walczak]
• A Budding New Type Nut [Val Lucas' work with Jim Walczak in matrix engraving and typecasting]
• Bidding Farewell to Daggs, Mitchell [Jim Daggs of Ackley, Iowa and Lew Mitchell of M&H Type Foundry in San Francisco; both passed in October 2020.]
• Aggressive Plan Launched to Save Daggs Shop [by Jay Endress]
• Casters Restored By New Zealand Museum

• On the Cover
• Nullifying the Excitement of Issue 44 [Death of Gregory Jackson Walters and Conference plan changse]
• Next Conference: April 28-30, 2023 in Maine [Conference No. 23]
• Effort to Create a Super Caster Forum
• The Passing of Greg Walers (by Rich Hopkins)
• Ancient Korean Types Discovered
• Type Metal Hardness is a Faulty Consideration
• Walters Solves a Dilemma from the 1960s [Intro. by Rich for the following article by Greg]
• Special Casters & Mats at Typefounders of Chicago (by the late Gregory Jackson Walters, 2011)
• Overriding Fred Goudy's Own Design
• We Don't Need You Anyway
• What Our Fellowship Is All About [With Brian Bagdonas, Troy Groves, and Larry Johnson]
• Buy a Thompson Or A Cow? (by Rich Hopkins) [on John S. Carroll and Paul Hayden Duensing]
• The Fonts & Typecasting I Have Done (by the late John S. Carroll)
• The Ancient Hand Mold Still Has A Role to Play [casting by Stan Nelson]
• Baltotype: Seen from A New Perspective (by Rich Hopkins)
• The Plan to Save Greg Walters' Shop and Literature [The Printing Stewards]
• Diverse Interests? How About Preserving Strike-On Typesetting?
• Untimely Death of Ludwig Mohr Puts Newsletter in Quandry
• A Chicago Type Foundry You Never Heard Of [Triangle Type Foundry]
• Buying Triangle Type Foundry Matrices (by Lester Feller, 1976)