14 point Garamond Bold 28A 43a Letterpress Foundry Type NOS

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Hi, thank you for looking.
Here is a new, unused font of Garamond Bold (ATF #474) in 14 point size cast in foundry metal.  I removed around a dozen 'a' types due to damage, leaving 29A, 43a and 22-1 - a very large font.  I do not have the original packaging material on this one.  This appears to be complete including various ligatures.
Please review the photos carefully and I will be happy to answer any questions.
Aside from the lower case 'a' characters getting smooshed at my supplier, this is quite a find!
Garamond is a fine and useful serif font for business printing.
I will ship this USPS Priority in a medium flat rate box.  It is heavy enough to require a steel galley as support, so this comes with the auction.  The font will be wrapped and supported with lots of packing just perfectly as always!  Remember that Ebay will add your appropriate sales tax!
best impressions...
Mike Moore
Here is a little bit of history on how Garamond Bold came to be (from Mac Mcgrew's
American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century
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Claude Garamond was a distinguished sixteenth-century type designer and founder, the first person to establish typefounding as a business separate from printing. Fonts known as caracteres de l'Universite and ascribed to Garamond are preserved in the Imprimerie Nationale in Paris. These were the inspiration for the Garamond typeface designed by Morris Benton for ATF and Garamont designed by Frederic W. Goudy for Monotype.
Several years after they were released, Beatrice Warde, writing under the pseudonym of Paul Beaujon, established that the source types were actually the work of Jean Jannon, a master printer in Paris in the early seventeenth century. But this disclosure did nothing to diminish the popularity of the elegant types named for Garamond.
Benton started work on his design in 1917, and it was released two years later, with Italic. Garamond Bold was added in 1920 and Bold Italic in 1923; they have achieved great popularity and wide use, and for many years were a basic choice for advertising display.
The LetterKraft Press