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Case for typographic elements

Place of manufacture: Greece
Date of manufacture: 19th-20th century
Material: Wood, Metal
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In the case the typographic elements were sorted in the period when typesetting was done by hand. The arrangement of the Greek typographic elements in the case was divided into 2 parts, top and bottom. The upper part had three sections: capital letters, punctuation marks, accented lowercase vowels and “spirits” in all possible combinations. The lower part of the case had two sections: in one section there were quotation marks, paragraphs, question marks, parentheses and brackets, hyphens, some consonants, some unstressed vowels, and the punctuation of 4 moments. In the other section there were numbers, unstressed vowels, vowels that are unstressed with a signed vowel, consonants, antennae, dots, commas, equal signs, and punctuation of 2, 3, 6, 12 moments, as well as some punctuation for closing the sentence.

Case for typographic elements
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