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2. Justus Erich Walbaum - Wikipedia

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   Walbaum was a punchcutter, who carved steel punches used as a master to stamp matrices, the moulds used to cast metal type. [8] Walbaum was born in Steinlah, a district of the town of Haverlah in modern Lower Saxony. Based first in Goslar and later in Weimar, he created type in the Didone style, also known as the 'rational' or 'modern' style.

3. W.B. Mason - Wikipedia

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   W.B. Mason is an American business products company headquartered in Brockton, Massachusetts.The company is known for its colorful delivery vehicles. The company was founded in 1897 and started out selling rubber stamps and stencils for the Brockton shoe industry.

4. Punchcutting - Wikipedia

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   Punchcutting is a craft used in traditional typography to cut letter punches in steel as the first stage of making metal type. [1] Steel punches in the shape of the letter would be used to stamp matrices into copper, which were locked into a mould shape to cast type. Cutting punches and casting type was the first step of traditional typesetting ...

5. Hallmark - Wikipedia

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   The control or inspection of precious metals was an ancient concept of examination and marking, by means of inspection stamps (punch marks). The use of hallmarks, at first on silver, has a long history dating back to the 4th century AD—there is evidence of silver bars marked under authority of the Emperor Augustinian [ clarification needed ...

6. Die (manufacturing) - Wikipedia

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   Punch – male portion of the die which punches through the sheet metal and into the corresponding (female) section of the die block. More specifically: [ 1 ] Blanking punch – performs a dual-purpose operation where either a profiled slug, called the blank, is cut out and used for further working, or where a finished piece is cut free from ...

7. Stamping (metalworking) - Wikipedia

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   Stamping (also known as pressing) is the process of placing flat sheet metal in either blank or coil form into a stamping press where a tool and die surface forms the metal into a net shape. Stamping includes a variety of sheet-metal forming manufacturing processes, such as punching using a machine press or stamping press , blanking, embossing ...