“Ed” George Lindsay QSL card

Contributed by Scott Higinbotham

_Photo:  Scott Higinbotham. License: All Rights Reserved. _

This ham radio QSL card from around the late 1940s uses an eclectic mix of period typefaces. The big type for “W6ND” is Glamour Bold (c.1948). “Burlingame, California” at the top is in George Salter’s Flex (1937), and Lindsay’s name features Keynote (1933) by Willard T. Sniffin. The form labels are set in the upright style of Piranesi (1930), also by Sniffin. Unlike Benton’s Piranesi Italic, it hasn’t been digitized yet. The bolder line in the bottom left corner uses the similar Bernhard Modern (1937).

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