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I have a customer who brought in a bunch of stuff to get framed (my day job) and one of those things is a leather name badge from their father's WWII uniform. The thing is, they're doing multiple frames and don't have enough of them for everyone, so they were hoping to get some duplicated. Does anyone recognize the font used for the lettering? You can see that it was done by hand with a single stamp at a time. The R's in particular are quite distinctive, and the center of the E is as well. post-11723-0-49926600-1453928765_thumb.j Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Not Times Roman? It looks like typewriter font.

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It's likely a typewriter variant, but I'm hoping for the EXACT font/tools used. Nothing I've found so far gets it quite right, the E especially.

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they are only 1/8" tall. they could be a machinist punch set.

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...They're 1/4". My bad for not lining it up on the proper spot.

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I think you're looking for something like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/us-military-letter-number-brass-punch-set-marking-outfit-leather-stamp-tools-/251232715354

Although that set looks to be italicized - and sold.

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Could try the following:

https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

http://www.fontspring.com/matcherator

http://www.identifont.com/

http://www.fonts.com/id/by-sight

http://www.digitalscrapper.com/blog/identify-font/

http://www.vandelaydesign.com/font-identifier-tools/

...but I don't know if it help you find the tools. It would help you identify a font that may be able to find a letterpress metal type set that could be used to to impress into leather. Examples can be seen here: http://aaleatherbigbookcovers.com/download/Typography%20in%20Leather%20Article.pdf

Hope this helps.

Bob Stelmack

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Used one of those font searching tools and came up with this:

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Bob Stelmack

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Thanks for the help, everyone. Looks like they're willing to settle for a different size and look after all. I'll be keeping an eye out from now on though because some of those kits look neat.

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An alternative would be to take a high resolution picture that is taken straight from the top, trace the outlines and vectorize them in Illustrator or similar software and then have a debossing stamp made from the pattern. That way you would get a exact duplicate. A white metal plate shouldn't cost you much more than 20-30 dollars for that size, maybe even less.

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Corrected link to article.

Had some issues with internet.  That article on Tutorial--Typography in Leather  has been moved to:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qgV6aH_FkHa5lBX_kNceroW2elQju_XW/view

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