J.H. Baker, dealer in paints, oils and colors, manufacturer of varnishes and japans, 24 India Street, Boston.
A trade catalogue issued in 1879 by J. H. Baker, a paint, oil and colour dealer and varnish manufacturer at 24 India Street, Boston, aimed at painters and buyers of paint supplies. The plates show brushes and tools, including oval chiselled sash tools, a bristle brush section, and numbered handle sizes, drawn in fine line engraving with dense hatching for bristle and wood grain. A designer might take the hatched tapering forms and the numbered size rows as models for clean technical diagrams of tools and brush parts.
