A Nu Take On The Nu-Type

If you look up the Nu-Type in The Catalogue, the book will direct you to the entry under “Ditto” where, on page 41, you’ll see a grouping of these oddballs, posed with a typewriter ribbon tin bearing the same Ditto logo:

I didn’t know quite what to make of these at the time the book went to press.  All of the Ditto-marked examples I had found also had “Nu-Type” imprinted neatly around the lower ring, in addition to the word “Ditto” imprinted neatly around the cap:

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