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Linotype Model 78

Another Model 78, this time without the side magazines and in used condition.



The Linotype Keyboard

The linotype keyboard. Spacebar to the left, then lower case, numbers, etc. are in the blue section and caps on the right. There is an expanding spaceband on the tray above. The blue section also contained the now little-used ligatures (fi, fl, ff, ffi, ffl).


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