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- Model: BK-PRACTICAL-SHOW-CARD-WRITER-1905
The thin practical card book, as an instant download.
The Practical Show Card Writer (1905) by Richard Otto Bersick is the thin, practical card book — a short working manual for the card writer who wanted method, not bulk. Small but genuine trade content.
Inside this 1905 manual:
Show card writing was a trade of its own, and this 1905 manual teaches it like one: one-stroke show card alphabets, price-ticket and sale-card layouts. Show card writers, retail advertisers, and sign painters lettering retail work — price tickets, sale cards, window displays — will find alphabets sized for real card work. Card writers kept books like this at the counter, lettering real tickets between lessons.
Complete your shelf: See also The Art of Show Card Writing (1922 ed.) (1922), The Art of Show Card Writing (1907 ed.) (1907), A Textbook on Show-Card Writing (1903).
Details:
- Complete 1905 edition scan — 10 pages
- Short working card manual
- Method without bulk
- Alphabets and layouts sized for real card work — tickets, sale cards, window displays
- One-stroke brush technique drilled the trade-school way
- Brush control exercises from the trade schools
- 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
