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- Model: BK-DRAWLET-PENS-1925
Esterbrook’s own pen booklet, as an instant download.
Drawlet Pens (1925) is the Esterbrook Pen Manufacturing Co.’s own booklet for its Speedball-competing lettering pens — part catalog, part instruction, all period trade ephemera. A short, charming piece of pen history for lettering collectors.
Inside this 1925 manual:
Written when the Speedball pen was the working tool of every lettering shop, this 1925 manual teaches the pen the way tradesmen learned it: Speedball pen nibs and poster-pen alphabets, alphabet construction and letter spacing. Lettering artists, sign painters, and show card writers building a reference shelf will reach for it every time a job needs a period-correct hand. Work the plates with a Speedball B-nib or any poster pen — the drills build the same hand the trade ran on.
Complete your shelf: See also Speedball Text Book: Modern Pen Lettering, 8th Edition (1925), Speedball Text Book: Modern Pen Lettering, 7th Edition (1923), Speedball 10th Edition Textbook (1927).
Details:
- Complete 1925 edition scan — 20 pages
- Original Esterbrook manufacturer booklet
- Pen history and lettering instruction in 20 pages
- Practice plates drawn for the Speedball and poster pen — work them with any broad nib
- Alphabet construction, spacing, and commercial layouts in lesson order
- Drills that build the speed and consistency the trade paid for
- Two files included: the original scan, cleaned of dust, stray marks, and handwritten notes, and a cleaned white-background edition that's easy on the eyes and the printer
- PDF format, instant download after purchase — no physical book ships
