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Another surprise: how the type was made. @tanyatypes acquired a set of handcut rubber stamps from the company and interviewed former employees. Rather than using a pantograph to trace a pattern and cut type with a mechanical router, as was common in the West (https://printinghistory.org/virgin-demo/), workers would cut these stamps by hand, then use them to mark a mirrored letter on wood blocks that were then chiseled by hand to create the resulting type.