Collectors' marks
Collectors' Marks is a 1918 reference compiled by the London print curator Louis Fagan, published in Saint Louis and held by the Smithsonian Libraries, cataloguing owners' marks on prints and drawings. Its plates are rows of small monograms, cyphers, crowned stamps and scrawled signatures set in ruled boxes, with numbered captions beneath each mark. A designer might draw on the variety of interlaced initials, oval and circular seal forms, and handwritten flourishes for monogram or logo ideas.
