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With electronics taking over virtually every aspect of manufacturing, packaging and shipping, it’s almost difficult to envision a time when wooden crates were marked for identification by using brass stencils. Many of these stencils...
For well over a century, stencil machines allowed manufacturers, shippers and even the military to quickly mark and identify objects. Mechanical Stencil JNL was created from examples from one of these machines.
For well over a century, stencil machines allowed manufacturers, shippers and even the military to quickly mark and identify objects. Mechanical Stencil JNL was created from examples from one of these machines.
The hand-lettered title on a piece of sheet music for 1938’s “Don’t Be That Way” (as recorded by Benny Goodman) featured squared letters with rounded corners, slight variants in line thickness and interesting “overhangs”....
Shanghai JNL is loosely based on the title lettering from “Charlie Chan in Shanghai”, one of the long-running series of detective films featuring the Asian sleuth and his “number one son”.
A generous assortment of cartoons, catch words, ornaments, embellishments and even a pointing hand tourist sign modeled from an actual vintage metal one round out Printers Stuff JNL.
Similar to date and numbering stamps, there once was manufactured rotary band stamps with different letter and number configurations that were used for various identification purposes. From a set of vintage bands acquired from...
The word “Signs” hand-lettered on the cover of a 1930s instructional book on sign and poster lettering was the basis for Poster Inline JNL.
Sheet music for a song featured in “East to West”, a film starring Mexican bombshell Dolores Del Rio, had the movie’s name lettered in a bold sans style with early Art Deco influences. East...
Sheet music for a song featured in “East to West”, a film starring Mexican bombshell Dolores Del Rio, had the movie’s name lettered in a bold sans style with early Art Deco influences. East...