An 1869 illustrated trade catalog featuring Adjustable and Inserted Saw Teeth with full p. pictorial and text descriptions, including price lists and directions; also the Swage, the Patent Adjustable Indicator, Cross Cut Saw and Handles, Saw Gummer and Mandrels for circular saws, and belting. A few copying presses with prices.....
A handsomely illustrated painting and art supply catalog including products such as China palettes, Tin boxes, Easels, Bronze powders, Putty knives, Vellum cloth, German drawing papers, Chinese Water Closet Paper, Sketch books, Camel’s Hair Mottlers, Badger Hair Blenders, and Red Sable Lettering Pencils. The numerous brushes offered include French Bristle.....
An excellent catalog published by one of the great printing press manufacturers of the 19th century, including a wide variety of printing machinery and tools, with many fine illustrations. Hoe manufactured a number of quite large printing machines which strike the eye as great marvels of invention. Their Ten Cylinder.....
An appealing 1857 trade catalog illustrated with fine wood engravings and promoting a variety of Circular Saws, Long Saws, Mill Saws, Cross-Cut and more; also a Gumming Machine, Mandrels, miscellaneous tools and sharpening repair services. Includes also “Directions for Setting and Sharpening Circular Saws,” “Certificates” [company reviews], and “Price Lists.”.....
A handsome trade catalog of printing and lithographic inks, including samples of half-tone, semi-transparent, opaque, two-shade sepia, book, poster, soft, medium and heavy body inks printed over the same image of a cowboy on bucking bronco. The typography is impressive as each sample is printed on the type of paper.....
An unrecorded and splendidly illustrated trade catalog advertising sealing waxes for letters, packages, and bottles (champagne, etc.); sulfur wicks and powders for sterilizing wine barrels; and inks. The chromolithographic plates were produced by master printer Charles Verneau, the Parisian publisher of many famous posters, including most of the oeuvre.....
An unrecorded specimen book of twenty-two delightful labels for patent medicines and other commodities, printed by this Chicago label printing firm. Merchants Publishing Co. manufactured druggists’ stationary and produced a diverse high-grade line of labels, pill and powder boxes, folding boxes, prescription blanks, and containers. As noted on the.....
A scarce and delightful catalogue of fine papers, a number of which serve as printing specimens as well (many of them in color), issued in striking chromolithographic wrappers by a high-grade paper manufacturer. Peter Adams Co.’s fine-grade papers were used throughout the world for printing fine books, catalogues, charts.....