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N. Tetterode [Nicolaas Tetterode]

Foundry in Amsterdam, set up in 1851 by Nicolaas Tetterode (1816-1894). Nicolaas' oldest son, also called Nicolaas, expanded the firm until his death in 1912. In 1914, the firm baecame Lettergieterij Amsterdam, which remains active until today. Tetterode's extensive type and printing library, De Typografische Bibliotheek van Lettergieterij 'Amsterdam' v/h N. Tetterode was donated in 1971 to the University of Amsterdam. In 2002, Linotype acquired the rights to all letters that the Lettergieterij Ammsterdam Tetterode had designed and released itself, such as Mercator and Lectura. And those rights went to Monotype when it in turn absorbed Linotype.

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file name: Nicolaas Tetterode 1816 1894


file name: Nicolaas Tetterode 1816 1894







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