Empty California Job Case

This U.S. case configuration matches that of Palmer & Rey: New Specimen Book (1884), and Hamilton Manufacturing Co: Catalog (c1897), both illustrated in Pryor: History of the California Job Type Case (Printing Historical Society Journal 1972), and the case in Palmer & Rey: Type Specimen Book (1892), and American Type Founders: Specimen of Wood Type and Catalogue of Printers Wood Goods and Materials (1893), and Barnhart Bros & Spindler: Pony Specimen (1890s), and American Type Founders: American Line Type Book (1906) and Specimen Book (1923). Pryor states it had become the most popular U.S. typecase by the early 1890s.

The upper case bay has one row of small boxes, and four rows of larger boxes (which should all be shown the same size). There is a later variation of the case, with one short row, three tall rows and one short row, as shown by Henry: Printing for School and Shop (1917) and Atkins: Art & Practice of Printing (circa 1930) and Polk: The Practice of Printing (1937 and still in 1964) and Polk & Gage: A Composition Manual (1953), and Whetton: Practical Printing & Binding (1946 and still in 1965), and Stephenson Blake & Co: Printing Equipment (1960s) and Kelsey: Printers Supply Book (1969) and American Printing Equipment & Supply Co (1983). Also Hamilton 1932 and Thompson 1949 and Missouri-Central Type Foundry: Price List (1959), show a further variation, with the boxes for : and ; smaller than the boxes for . and - in the bottom row.

The original type lay can be seen as US California Job, a later U.K. version is UK California Job, and current U.S. version is JoAnn Rees. The empty two-third case is Two Third but there is some confusion between this and the Two Third Yankee.