. 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 . Fig. 24.—Showing how the Corners are Cut off ExtendedLetters. give variety, but it is not so neat a letter as the all respects this letter is the same as the octagon exceptin the formation of the corners. Tlie Half Block letter is next in order. This letter is sim-ply the gothic of the printe
. 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 . Fig. 24.—Showing how the Corners are Cut off ExtendedLetters. give variety, but it is not so neat a letter as the all respects this letter is the same as the octagon exceptin the formation of the corners. Tlie Half Block letter is next in order. This letter is sim-ply the gothic of the printer,with a few alterations. Weshow in Fig. 25 the octagon half block, which is one of themost useful letters of the wagon painter. It may be con-densed, but its extension is not advised beyond a small 26 shows the half block round letter. There are somepeculiarities about the half block style of letter that we wishto call particular attention to, First, the formation of the 74 THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. letter M. We show in Figs. 27, 28 and 29 the differencemade by letterers, Fig. 27 being the recognized or correct.
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