[Warm congratulations to Professor Rudolf von Larisch on his seventieth birthday] cyrusprints annoyingly

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He was very close with Fritz Kredell

They sure look like the sort of crosses that one would see from the Offenbach Workshop

Experimental Jetset

A useful reminder of what we can do when we’re not helping people sell shit stuff

[Warm congratulations to Professor Rudolf von Larisch on his seventieth birthday] cyrusprints annoyinglyWe dont really know the story of this one. What follows has a fact or two followed by some educated but potentially misleading guesses. Google Translate suggests that this is a birthday greeting for Rudolf von Larisch, the important Austrian calligrapher, editor of this book, and type designer (most recently covered in this fantastic book). Von Larisch would have turned 70 on April 1, 1926, which means this was most likely printed in that year. In