Freemasons menu
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"Freemasons menu, folded to resemble a Masonic apron." —Dadois unusual in that it has a horizontal (or Herman Ihlenberg, as it is for so many of these MS&J faces.
The name is quite appropriate if it references the architectural terms for the lower part of a wall and the rail/molding that divides it. The heavy stroke at the face's x-height forms something of a dado rail along a line of letters.
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1885 MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan catalog, page 376a.
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1892 MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan catalog, page 260.
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