Bronze and Enamel engraved and cast nameplates, tablets, arms and facia letters : [Metalline Enamelling Company] : Birmingham : nd [c.1935] : cover

            A splendidly produced colour catalogue of bronze and enamel lettering, engraved and cast nameplates, memorial tablets and plaques that is curiously absolutely anonymous with no issuing company or date shown. Printed in Birmingham by Drew & Hopwood it shows a wide variety of signs and plaques, along with their fixing methods, as well as various 'typefaces' that have been adopted for use on these signs. As well as cast lettering these 'faces could be used on engraved signs.

After a bit of research I am confident that this was issued by the Birmingham based Metalline Enamelling Company of Barr Street and this appears to be a 'first' edition as there is evidence of a second edition, very similar, but with a title page and dated to c.1951. This edition is not missing any pages and I suspect that it may have been issued with a compliments slip or such as it does contain some loose and tipped in additional copies of some pages. Birmingham was a centre of the enamelling trade that was, in many ways, a speciality of the city and the adjacent Black Country.

Taken on: December 22, 2024

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c.1935

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