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About this book

The 1928 Ticket Writing and Sign Painting comes from the last full decade of the hand-lettered retail ticket — and it teaches the craft exactly as the working ticket writer practiced it. Price tickets were the point-of-sale advertising of the 1920s: every item in the store needed its price stated boldly and legibly, and the ticket writer who could letter fast, read far, and keep a window full of tickets supplied never lacked for work. This manual covers the ticket alphabets, the quick brush and pen hands, sale and special-announcement cards, and the sign-painting basics behind them.

The late-1920s date gives the book a modern edge over the earlier ticket manuals. The lettering reflects the Jazz Age retail style — bolder, more streamlined display hands alongside the traditional ticket alphabets — while keeping the workingman's emphasis on speed and legibility. The sign-painting chapters ground the ticket work in the broader trade: layout, color, and the brush handling every sign painter needed.

For today's ticket writers and retail sign painters, a 1928 manual is the style book for the Art Deco retail era — the letterforms of the great department-store windows, preserved in a working text. For lettering students, it is a compact course in the fastest of the lettering trades: letters that had to be finished by the dozen and read across the store.

An antique ticket writing book from the hand-lettered retail age. For ticket writers, sign painters, and students of 1920s lettering style.

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This is a print-on-demand reprint of a scanned historical document.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 1928 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 1928 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 1928 book with all its character intact, you're in the right place.

Printed on demand by IngramSpark. One copy at a time — no inventory, no waste.