Catalogue of improved stencil dies / manufactured by S. M. Spencer.
This 1874 trade catalogue from S. M. Spencer & Co. of Boston, printed by Benj. F. Allen, offers improved stencil dies to sign painters, marking-device users and merchants. The pictures are plain black-line engravings of blank plates, flourished lettering, ring-shaped tools and small symbol and cipher dies, which suggest simple stencil layouts, shield-shaped label frames and compact marking motifs a designer could adapt.
