Spanjer Bros. Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Wood Signs (Catalog E) (1909) — Digital Download

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Spanjer Bros. Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Wood Signs (Catalog E), 1909. A genuine antique sign catalog from the golden age of the trade — back in print.

Spanjer Bros. of Newark, New Jersey sold ready-made wood signs to painters and shopkeepers across America, and this 1909 catalog shows exactly what the trade offered: illustrated wood signs of every description, complete with the price list that tells you what a working sign cost in 1909. For today's sign painter, it is both a fascinating historical document and a working design reference — the sign styles, lettering fashions, and commercial layouts of the era, reproduced from the original catalog.

Collectors of antique advertising and sign-trade ephemera will prize it as an original piece of the industry's paper trail. The 100 pages are illustrated throughout — every sign shown as it was sold, priced as it was priced.

A rare survivor from a Newark sign manufactory, reproduced complete for the modern shop.

Details: PDF digital download, 100 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This is a digital edition scanned from a historical document.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 1909 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 1909 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 1909 manual with all its character intact, you're in the right place.