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agn178
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 27/02/2017 : 18:24:28
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| Our cars, engines, gearboxes, chassis plates are all stamped in a similar type font of lettering & numbering, which isn't Times New Roman! Purely out of interest does anyone know what this particular font style is called & whether there's any likelihood of being able to find a sample anywhere? |
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sullivan
USA
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Posted - 28/02/2017 : 05:06:47
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Hi Derek,
My suggestion is check out eBay tools to see if you may find a vintage set of type set stamps. They come in sets in a block of wood as you may well know. These may have been used in foundry work and to stamp parts. The old info tag on the block may provide that information.
We use them to this day in our restoration shop to mark parts.
Best,
Brian W Sullivan |
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dade
United Kingdom
503 Posts |
Posted - 28/02/2017 : 09:46:36
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Hi Derek
Suggest that you take for example the Guarantee Plate to your local Sports Trophy engraver and get him to check out the templates that he would use on his Pantograph style engraving machine, or try Letterpress Transfer catalogues, check through the typefaces available on your computer this may help you decipher the myriad of Type Faces that are available.
Its obviously a going to be a simple san serif face like "Gill" as casting and stamping in those days would need to be simple.
Regards
Russ |
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agn178
United Kingdom
57 Posts |
Posted - 28/02/2017 : 09:49:01
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Brian:Thanks for this, it's what I intend to do.
However I still need to identify the font which, at the moment the nearest seems to be "Ovo Serif".
As ever Google came to the rescue with a search for "1930's fonts"! However it's proving difficult as I've only the letters A & J, plus numbers 0,1,2,3,7,8,9 to go on.
Meanwhile the search for font and stamps continues.
Derek
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PeterL
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28/02/2017 : 11:23:17
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| VSCC cars have all manner of fonts on hand painted number plates, some quite beautifully executed... |
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DickMorbey
United Kingdom
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Posted - 28/02/2017 : 15:50:44
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Ahem! Why would anyone need authentic-font stamps? 
Dick Morbey
PA/PB 0743
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agn178
United Kingdom
57 Posts |
Posted - 28/02/2017 : 16:02:27
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Why not?? I need to mark up a repro (new) chassis plate & sure as guns someone is going to point out that the stamping "looks wrong" should I use today's normal stamps!
Anyway the number style on the gearbox is rather nice! |
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sullivan
USA
423 Posts |
Posted - 28/02/2017 : 19:09:14
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Derek,
I note that the font on my engine and gear case are indeed a serif face, and not a san serif font.
Regards,
Brian W Sullivan |
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Ian Grace
USA
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Posted - 28/02/2017 : 19:35:03
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| On the Minor - and I think its the same on MG's, the car type and chassis number were engraved and the engine number was stamped. Pre-engaraved plates came in a neat pile in chassis number order and when a chassis was laid down, the next plate was taken from the box and loosely attached with a piece of twisty wire - because the firewall hadn't been fitted yet. Neither had the engine, so this allowed the plate to be removed and stamped with the number of the next engine to hand. The chassis number on the plate was also hand-stamped on the dumbiron. So to be perfectly correct, you'll need two fonts for the chassis plate - one for engraving and the other for the engine number! |
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sullivan
USA
423 Posts |
Posted - 28/02/2017 : 21:10:02
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Following on,
The proper font and stamps are part of the authentication procedure of cars & original parts.
Producing new stamp and putting into use on new or old parts creates the possibility of fraud.
This could be a concern to all.
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Ian Grace
USA
651 Posts |
Posted - 28/02/2017 : 21:38:02
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Yeah, but the repro plates are easy to distinguish from the originals - at least for a few decades!
So you are in Monroe? Jeez! I live about 10 miles from you - in Startup!!! |
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sullivan
USA
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