Practical carriage and wagon painting : a treatise on the painting of carriages, wagons and sleighs, embracing full and explicit directions for executing all kinds of work : including painting factory work, lettering, scrolling, ornamenting, varnishing, etc. : with many tested recipes and formulas (1903)
Hillick, M. C. (Mayton Clarence), b. 1859 · Chicago : Press of the Western Painter · leaf 105
ought forth only when praiseworthy skill is exercised in executing the operations named. Individuality of work- manship is based upon the style of laying out. A workman practiced in handling a lettering or striping pencil can very soon master the difficulties of painting a letter after it is… … Oknamental Alphabet No. 1. penciled but improperly designed. The key, then, to fine wagon lettering may be embraced in the work of laying out. To present rules by which the workman may at all times and closely abide in preparing a contemplated design for letter painting would be impracticable…
Carriage and wagon painting
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