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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

Schriber, Fritz · 1895 · New York : M.T. Richardson · 37 pictures

A trade manual by Fritz Schriber, published in New York by M.T. Richardson in 1895, teaching carriage, wagon and sleigh painters lettering, scrolling, striping and varnishing with colour-mixing recipes. The four pictures are large display capital letters in heavy black Roman and decorative styles, one shaded with a hatched drop shadow, useful to a designer looking for vintage sign-painting alphabets.

Carriage and wagon painting

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