Palms Sapphire Collection CD - $175.00

Palm's Trilogy Historical clip art Collections

Palm's Trilogy Historical clip art Collections consists of three collections of ornaments, which are available as a set or individually.The disks are PC and Mac compatible, each file is saved in both AI 3.0 and EPS 3.0 formats. Each vector illustration is meticulously "hand" vectorized. No automatic vectorizing program was used in any way. Palm’s Trilogy 3000 piece. Historical Clip-art Collection Contains all three cd’s, Ruby, Emerald & Sapphire. Attention to detail was given to each line and curve throughout the more than 3000 ornaments found in the three CD set.

• Ruby Collection begins with 92 historically accurate renderings of images found in the circa 1880 Palm Brothers Ornaments, Trade designs.

•  Sapphire Collection CD contains 515 ornamental corners, based on the 92 "master" ornaments of the Ruby Collection. Also included are 767 ornamental panels, which are based on the first 46 "masters". That's a total 528 megs of 19th Century eye candy!

• Emerald Collection CD contains 710 ornamental ends, based on the 92 "master" ornaments of the Ruby Collection. Also included are 658 ornamental panels, which are based on the first 46 "masters". That's a total 470 megs of 19th Century eye candy! The average size of the Emerald Collection's 1368 ornaments is a mere 170K.
• Palms Sampler is a small cross section of design to sample These can be broken apart and remade into many more.

The story behind the designs

Before vinyl and computer cutters, the finest ornament on a carriage or wagon was a transfer — printed decals that sign painters bought from a catalog, cut apart, and applied by hand. The country's great source of those transfer ornaments was the Palm Brothers Decalcomania Company of Cincinnati, established in 1868 and described as America's first decal manufacturer. In the early 2000s, Don Coplen worked from an 1880s Palm catalog that came from the collection of his friend and fellow lettering artist Rick Glawson (Fine Gold Sign Co.). Glawson believed the fragile, undated catalog was from the 1880s, and from its pages Coplen meticulously hand-redrew 92 master ornaments — then built thousands of corners, ends, and panels from them. Every illustration in this collection was hand-vectorized, with no automatic vectorizing used, and each file is saved in both AI 3.0 and EPS 3.0 formats.