Point-of-sale display for compasses

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Koralle lichtfett (1926), the extrabold inline style of Schelter & Giesecke’s Koralle family, in use for presenting a dozen of “solid compasses for pupils”, probably from around the 1950s. Note the dots in the Ü umlaut that are integrated into the cap height.

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