. 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 . uv wx Fig. 50.— 94 THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. Y Fig. 50.—Continued, Among a dozen first-Cxass sign writers there is con-siderable difference in opinion and custom as to minorpoints in the construction and spacing in this alphabet,especially the letters B, C, P, B, and S, and let
. 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 . uv wx Fig. 50.— 94 THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. Y Fig. 50.—Continued, Among a dozen first-Cxass sign writers there is con-siderable difference in opinion and custom as to minorpoints in the construction and spacing in this alphabet,especially the letters B, C, P, B, and S, and letters involv-ing like curves and principles. When used on wagon, caror sign work, it looks best in gold on a black smaltground. In this letter, each, with a few exceptions, occupies asquare. The letters C, G, O and Q are described withina perfect circle, although the minor curves must be drawn THE COMPLETE CARRIAGE AND WAGON PAINTER. 95 free-hand, observing to keep the proper thickness, whichis a trifle more in these letters than in the heavy perpendi-culars of most other letters. The thickness, according tothe best authorities should be two-ninths of the height,although the appearance is good when made hair lines extend right and left from the grace linestwo-thirds of the two-ninths, and the grace
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