This is our 10th post from the American Line Type Book; it’s the page which offers type related to the use of diacritical marks (accent or tone marks). They had several typefaces - Cheltenham & Century - which had letters available with integrated accent marks; additionally, they offered accent marks as separate pieces of type that could be set/placed over typefaces not available with them. They called these “piece” accents.

Since we find inclusion of this kind of moveable type info important (in a kind of OCD way) but perhaps lacking in the drama and verve departments ; ] we’re also giving you several ornaments. Kitty! A bee! How can you not love them? (They are high-resolution png files, cleaned-up and suitable for 300 dpi print work.)

These two animal ornaments were from a set of about 100+ dingbats & ornaments designed for use with a typeface named “Post” which they also sold in numerous font variations - a sample of this type is offered in this post’s gallery. You can see how suited in style these images are for use with that face.

(Later in the book, you’ll be seeing the entire set of these Post ornaments: puppies! flowerpots! flowers! horsies! you-name-it! - and pages and pages and pages of other gorgeous and intricate images that were offered for sale as moveable type: very useful to the job printer without money or resources for for commissioned illustration.)

(This typebook- from 1906 - is in the public domain; it is scanned from our own hardcopy.)