Item #864 Speedball Lettering Charts Nos. 3 & 4. Ross F. George.
Speedball Lettering Charts Nos. 3 & 4

Speedball Lettering Charts Nos. 3 & 4

A double-sided lettering chart/poster culled from a series of lessons that appeared in the 1930s/'40s Speedball textbook "Modern Lettering and Poster Design". The Hunt Pen Company was the manufacturer of Speedball pens, inks, linoleum cutters and Boston pencil sharpeners. The how-to lettering textbooks were an early and essential resource for designers and sign painters. The famous Speedball lettering textbooks were published throughout the 20th century and it was in its 23rd edition as of 1999.

Chart No. 3 covers single stroke Speeball Roman alphabets with C-1 and D-1 pens, and Roman bold alphabets with the oval tip style D pen. Chart No. 4 covers single stroke Roman italics with C-1 pens and Roman bold with D pens. Item #864.

Condition: Very Good, light yellowing to paper.

Lettering Chart
Hunt Pen Company
19" x 12.5"
Offset printed
Camden, NJ: 1941

Price: $22.00

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