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Black plaque № 57544

St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Black plaque № 57544

Here stood the house of Bailie Bell, who, before 1744, was an eager co-worker with Alexander Wilson, the father of Scottish type-founding, and John Baine in whose type-foundry in Philadelphia the first $ sign was cast in 1797.

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