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About this book

Albert Edwin Hurst and Clarence Joseph Nowak's Hardware Show Card Writing (1913) is the specialist's manual for the hardware store's windows — show-card writing aimed at one trade. Tools, cutlery, stoves, paints, builders' hardware: the hardware merchant's stock was the most varied on Main Street, and his cards had to sell all of it.

The book teaches the card writer's method adapted to hardware-store needs: bold, readable price hands for the small cards, display alphabets for announcements and sales, and layouts suited to the trade's vocabulary — the special sales, the new tools, the seasonal goods. Two authors, one practical aim: cards that move merchandise. The hardware trade had its own language — edge tools, builders' hardware, stove furnishings — and the book's layouts are built around the words a hardware merchant actually needed lettered.

For the modern ticket writer it is a complete method with a distinctive flavor — the authentic 1913 hardware-store voice, direct and commercial. Collectors of trade literature and hardware Americana will find it a period piece of the first rank. Two specialists writing for one trade gives the book its authority: every example answers a real hardware-store need.

For show-card and ticket writers, sign painters doing retail work, lettering students, and collectors of hardware and advertising Americana. The 1913 hardware man's card-writing manual.

Details: 6×9" paperback, black and white interior, cream paper.

⚠️ Please read before ordering — about print quality

This is a print-on-demand reprint of a scanned historical document. The pages were scanned from an original 1913 printing, and the print quality of your book reflects the condition of that original scan.

What that means in plain terms: you may see faded text, uneven inking, age spots, show-through from the back of pages, and other imperfections that were in the 1913 original or introduced by the scanning process. These are preserved as-is — they are not printing defects, and they are not something we can fix.

We are not responsible for the condition of the original source material. If you want a pristine modern typeset book, this isn't it. If you want the actual 1913 book with all its character intact, you're in the right place.

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