Telegraph ATF

Charles Beeler Jr. designed this in 1895 for Mackellar, Smiths and Jordan, which was part of the American Type Founders combine.

The font had a short life because five years later ATF began an 'off with the old, on with the new' program, and this font was an early victim.

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