Commercial lettering

Date

1960s-1980s

Collection

Central Lettering Record

Code

CLR.2023.1140.M.1-3

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License

Creative Commons

Lettering shown on two commercial fascia panels, handpainted lowercase script (top: connected, brush, bottom: connected) letterforms, bottom example includes three-dimensional effect, reading: ’ELECTRICAL DEALER AND CONTRACTOR; DISPENSING CHEMIST’.

Location: unknown At the back, another image, showing carved (v-section) capital and lowercase serif high contrast letterforms, including date, reading ’SCHOOL for the education and clothing of poor girls of Sherbone, founded by the Right Honourable William Lord Digby, 1743’. Location: Sherborne, South West England.

Alan Bartram Photographic print Graphic design Lettering