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Letterpress composition requires several kinds of spacing material.
The kind used for filling out large "white" areas within the typesetting or between the typesetting and the edge of the chase are rectangles ranging from [all measures in pica units] 2x10 to 12 x 70 or even larger. These are generally called furniture.
Furniture is made from a range of materials. Wood is probably the most common. Extrusions of aluminium alloy are very nice to work with. Extrusions of typemetal are cheaper but make the forme quite heavy. The furniture in this picture is of cast iron.
You can see the pica measurements cast into each piece.
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