The Estonian Printing Museum has a great collection of wood type some of which was made before the Second World War and perhaps before the Bolshevik Revolution. We printed a small edition of six of the most interesting fonts: three Roman and three Cyrillic. We printed an example of every letter (though not every sort), a sample of the bottom of each font (for sawmark identification), and any replacement characters. We also printed a fragment of a wood engraving that had been reused to make a piece of type from a font of type that we did not print.
A small booklet with images of the type accompanies the prints, which are housed in a phase box inside a slipcase.
All of the prints were made using a Dingler iron handpress on dampened Hahnemühle Ingres paper.
A pdf of all of the prints can be found here, and a pdf of the booklet, here.
