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![[picture: Baroque Decorative Alphabet from Amsterdam]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-InitialLetters/wm/big/alphabets-18thc-amsterdam-155-q50-247x200.jpg "[picture: Baroque Decorative Alphabet from Amsterdam]")
Baroque Decorative Alphabet from Amsterdam
Completed decorative alphabet from the Wetstein Foundry; these types were cut by Joan Michael Fleischman (1701–1768). [more...]
[$]![[picture: Ornamental Cpaitals from England, 19th Century]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-InitialLetters/wm/big/alphabets-274-english-ornamental-q75-225x200.jpg "[picture: Ornamental Cpaitals from England, 19th Century]")
Ornamental Cpaitals from England, 19th Century
These were reproduced in a book called Alphabets published by l’Aventurine. They would have been sold for use as dropped capitals at the start of chapters. I coloured them and straightened them somewhat. [more...]
[$]![[picture: Victorian antique style decorative alphabet from Stuttgart]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-InitialLetters/wm/big/otto-weisert-antique-style-alphabet-q75-97x200.jpg "[picture: Victorian antique style decorative alphabet from Stuttgart]")
Victorian antique style decorative alphabet from Stuttgart
Otto Weisert was a type-maker in Stuttgart, in Germany. Although he is best known today for the typeface Arnold Boecklin, he made many other designs; this one is Initialen No. 17, or Initial No.18. [more...]
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