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About this book

Illustrated Sample Book & Price List of Palm's Patent Transfer Letters, Ornaments & Trade Designs, 1901. The turn-of-the-century catalog for transfer letters — back in print.

Before vinyl and plotters, there were transfer letters: the Palm Letter Co. of Cincinnati sold patent transfer letters, ornaments, and trade designs that let any shopkeeper letter a window or sign without a painter's hand. This 1901 sample book shows the full line — illustrated alphabets, ornament cuts, and trade designs, complete with the original price list.

For the vintage lettering manual collector, it is a window into how lettering was sold as a product; for the working sign painter, it is a book of period alphabet and ornament designs ready to be adapted to modern work. The 58 pages are a concentrated dose of 1901 commercial lettering fashion — every style the trade offered, priced for the ordering customer.

An unusual survival from the lettering-supply trade, reproduced complete.

Details: PDF digital download, 58 pages.

⚠️ Please read before ordering — about print quality

This is a digital edition scanned from a historical document. The pages were scanned from an original 1901 printing, and the quality of your download 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 1901 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 1901 manual with all its character intact, you're in the right place.