The Pinkham Electric Gas Lighting Company.
A trade catalogue issued in 1884 by the Pinkham Electric Gas Lighting Company, a United States maker that sold electrical and gas fittings to builders and householders for lighting, door chimes and alarms. The four pictures show a framed wooden wall plate with a knob and sphere, a wall bracket lamp operated by a pull chain, a cylindrical metal electric device with terminal screws, and a small engraved scene of a man seated at a desk beside a window. A designer could take from them the plain Victorian engraving style of shaded cross-hatching in black and white, with bold simple object silhouettes suited to vintage trade-print motifs.
