Monograms and heraldic designs
A 1910 London pattern book of monograms and heraldic devices issued by Wilkinson, Heywood & Clark, varnish manufacturers, for sign painters and carriage decorators. The plates show rows of interlaced initial letters in red, teal and gold tints, with a central crowned cipher or coat-of-arms motif on several pages, arranged on a grid for easy copying. A designer could take the interlaced letterforms, crown and ribbon scrolls, and the restrained tinted palette as models for lettering and emblems.
