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Western Type Foundry was founded in 1901 to compete with the conglomerate and near-monopoly,
American Type Founders American Type Founders (ATF) Co. was a business trust created in 1892 by the merger of 23 type foundries, representing about 85% of all type manufactured in the United States. De Vinne, Theodore Low, ''The Practice of Typography,'' Century Comp ...
. In 1914 Western purchased the Advance Type Foundry in
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from ''Wiebking, Hardinge & Company'', though even before this
Robert Wiebking Robert Wiebking (1870–1927) was a German-American engraver type designer, typeface designer who was known for cutting type matrices for Frederic Goudy from 1911 to 1926. Life and career Robert Wiebking was born in Schwelm, Germany in 1870, he em ...
did most of the punch-cutting and matrix making for Western. Among the matrices that Wiebking for the foundry were his own designs for ''Farley,'' ''Perry,'' ''
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,'' and ''Advertisers Gothic,'' a re-cutting of ''
Caslon Caslon is the name given to serif typefaces designed by William Caslon I (c. 1692–1766) in London, or inspired by his work. Caslon worked as an engraver of punches, the masters used to stamp the moulds or matrices used to cast metal ty ...
,'' and the original matrices for Bruce Rogers's deservedly famous '' Centaur typeface''. The foundry was closed in 1919, transferring all of its equipment and holdings to
Barnhart Brothers & Spindler Barnhart Brothers & Spindler Type Foundry was an American typeface company founded as the Great Western Type Foundry in 1873. It became Barnhart Brothers & Spindler ten years later. It was a successful foundry known for innovative type design an ...
in 1919. Lawson, Alexander, ''Anatomy of a Typeface,'' David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston, 1990, , pp. 68-70. Over its lifetime, the foundry issued four specimen books, in 1906, 1909, 1912 and 1917. The ''Western Type Foundry'' is not to be confused with the ''Great Western Type Foundry'' which later became ''Barnhart Brothers & Spindler.''


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