Gerts, Lumbard & Co., Manufacturers of Brushes : 1890
A trade catalogue of brushes issued in 1890 by the manufacturer Gerts, Lumbard & Co., aimed at buyers and dealers in painting and decorating tools. The pictures are plain wood-engraved line drawings of individual flat and fitch brushes, shown in side view with handles, ferrules and bristle or fibre tips clearly outlined, with some captions such as Fitch Graining Brush. A designer could take from them the simple, mechanical outline of tool forms and the hatched shading used to suggest wood grain and metal bands.
