Patent Affidavit, Tivoli

Brehmer claims that he "invented a new and original design for Font of Printing Type." This legal language is interpreted to mean that he was indeed the designer.

 

Patent applications submitted by non-designer TF executives usually read "invented and produced."

 

This curly cutie was designed, cut and patented by Henry Brehmer of New York in July–August 1888. Rights were assigned to David Wolfe Bruce, son of George Bruce.

 

Like other faces introduced by Bruce (and Page) after 1874, it was not named; it was shown by number only. Since numbers did not need legal protection from infringement, this practice eliminated fees for tradename registration to the USPTO Trademark Department established in 1870-1874.

 

No commercial specimen identifying Bruce's catalog number is available. The most likely candidate, listed by Loy¹ and not illustrated by Johnston & Saxe,² is No. 1560:

 

•No. 1559=Dainty (designed/patented by George Halm, cut by Brehmer) is dated 1886 [USPTO D16673],

•No. 1561 was patented in July–September 1888 [USPTO D18602] by Julius Guildenstine, not a subject of Loy's series.

 

Fortuntately, Dan X. Solo named it for the famous Tivoli Gardens of Copenhagen [Solotype Catalog 13]. There is no doubt that millions of his readers already recognize this tradename!

 

¹Loy, W.E. (1898–1900): Designers and Engravers Of Type. In The Inland Printer, November 1899.

²Johnston, A.M.; Saxe, S.O. [Editors] (2009): William E. Loy|Nineteenth-Century American Design­ers and Engravers of Type, pages 116-119. Oak Knoll Books (New Castle, DE).

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This letterpress typeface has not been digitized for posterity. A high-resolution working specimen of this preview is available to revival developers. Note that the rare "Pound Sterling" symbol is included.

 

More about Tivoli forums.typeheritage.com/topic/tivoli/

 

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More about 19th-century type design patents... typeheritage.com/history/uspto-01/

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