In 2017 I helped Lindsay Schmittle, Gingerly Press / Pittsburgh, negotiate a sale with Henry Morris of Bird and Bull Press. Henry, who was 87 at the time, was selling everything in his letterpress shop. Lindsay wanted his variable speed C & P press and his complete inventory of metal typefaces. One of those typefaces was Trump Medieval.

As it turned out, the Trump type (actually Trump Mediaeval) was too large for the type of letterpress work Lindsay preferred to do. As I already had a fairly complete run of the type, Lindsay traded some smaller sizes from our collection for all of the Trump (about 8 job cases).

She later came across the 1977 invoice for $310.30 for the 16pt Trump Regular, Italic, and a full set of accented characters.

Below you can see an excellent application of the accented types in our political postcards we were mailing to all U.S. Senators in 3-week intervals. In this instance, we were protesting the travel bans in the early part of Donald Trump’s tenure as President of the U.S. We took the quote from the Statue of Liberty and exchanged every opportunity with an accent character.

We think this is a wonderfully simple idea that dropped right into our world as letterpress printers.