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English: Note: the plate says - "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog and feels as if he were in the seventh heaven of typography together with Hermann Zapf, the most famous artist of the"
Français : Caractères mobiles d’imprimerie. On peut lire en anglais : « Le renard rapide saute par dessus le chien paresseux (équivalent anglophone de «  Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume »), comme s’il était dans le septième ciel de la typographie avec Herman Zapf, l’artiste le plus célèbre du »
Date 28 September 2004 (from Exif metadata)
Source http://www.sxc.hu/photo/238776
Author Willi Heidelbach
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English: A set of metal types
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