The complete carriage and wagon painter : a concise compendium of the art of painting carriages, wagons and sleighs, embracing full directions in all the various branches, including lettering, scrolling, ornamenting, striping, varnishing and coloring with numerous recipes for mixing colors (1895)
Schriber, Fritz · New York : M.T. Richardson · leaf 83
70 THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. It is a singular fact that almost every particular city has a local style of lettering, both for wagons and signs. Bos- … Fi<l. 48. Fig. 44. Fig. 45. Three Styles of Letters used by the Abbot Downing Co. ton has a very peculiar style ; Philadelphia another : yet they all appear well when one gets accustomed to them. The Abbot Downing Co., of Concord, N. H.. introduced a new and tasteful style of lettering for express…
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