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• Title:Superior Price Marker.
  
• Publication:[Great Britain?] : [publisher not identified], [not before 1895]
  
• Physical Description:[20] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: In Process
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Notes:"The Superior Sign Markers as illustrated and specimens of type as shown on the following pages, are our latest device in the Price Marker line ... There is no device now known that equals them for printing price tickets, price lists, signs, show cards, announcements, bulletin boards, and many other purposes, as they will print on paper, wood, leather, glass etc. ..."--Page [1].
  The example set illustrated on page [1] is titled "Superior Price Marker."
  Date of publication from the patent date mentioned on page [1].
  The catalog describes sets similar in design to those marketed as "The Easy" sign marker. Presumably, the Superior Sign Marker was a competitor.
  
• Summary:Includes a description of the Superior Sign Marker line on page [1] and examples produced from the available fonts on pages [2]-[20].
  
• Format:Book
• Subjects:Marking devices--Catalogs.
  Rubber stamp printing--Catalogs.
  Marking devices industry.
  Signs and signboards.
  
• Genre/Form:Trade catalogs.
  Type specimens.
  Wood engravings--1895.