A collective entry for a narrow grotesque design of unclear origin. Sold in Germany in 1926 by various foundries, incl. Genzsch & Heyse (as Longina), Stempel (as Schmale enge Grotesk), Schelter & Giesecke (as Schmale halbf. Steinschrift, with Conner credits), AG für Schriftgießerei u. M. and Gursch (as Schmale Grotesk/Schmale Grotesque), and Ludwig Wagner (as Schmale halbfette Grotesk) [Wetzig 1926–40] [Reynolds]. Grotesca Mercantil (Gans) is a version with a monocular ‘g’ [1922 specimen] See also Gothic Condensed No. 529.

In sizes from 36pt on up, Bauer’s Neueste schmale Grotesk is a version of this design, too. Poppelbaum, Krebs, Ludwig & Mayer, Numrich, and Scholz all sold it as Schmale Steinschrift, and Berger as well as Schriftgiesserei Bern as Steinschrift. After Berthold had acquired the Emil Berger foundry in 1893, they sold it under the name Enge Steinschrift. At some point, Berthold renamed it Akzidenz-Grotesk schmalhalbfett. Revised for their phototype version, now without the “splayed t”. [Reynolds] While the versions shown by Wetzig (1926) all have a double-storey ‘g’, Berthold’s post-WWII metal version shows a monocular ‘g’.