Tea-Chest, a stencil type : specimen brochure issued by Stephenson Blake, Sheffield, c1950 - sample page (Mann's Beers)
Rober Harling, the noted designer, produced Tea-Chest for Stephenson Blake in 1939 but this brochure seems to date from c1950 and indeed states that ‘stencilled letter-forms have had no place in the spate of type designs which in recent years, has descended with such fury upon the unsuspecting printer and typographer.’
This sample page is intended to show the utility of the Tea-Chest typeface and takes the form of two 'adverts'. Although using two well-known brands these adverts may be 'real' or simply drawn up for the brochure. The page shows Tea-Chest combined with Scarab and Verona typefaces.
Mann's Brown Ale was brewed by the then long established brewers Mann, Crossman & Paulin who were based in London's East End and who merged with Watney, Combe & Reid in 1958. The dreaded Watney's was to swamp the merged companies and ended up with a dire reputation although oddly, Mann's Brown Beer survives as a niche product and is brewed in Burtonwood in the north west of England (although I was surprised to see that this brewery is now know as "Thomas Hardy). The "ordinary" referred to is the penny-farthing bicycle shown in the engraving.
The Lund Humpries book on artist Paul Nash was one of a series of art books produced by the publisher who in the post-war years played a major role in the re-establishment of fine printing and publishing in the UK.
Tea-Chest, a stencil type : specimen brochure issued by Stephenson Blake, Sheffield, c1950 - sample page (Mann's Beers)
Rober Harling, the noted designer, produced Tea-Chest for Stephenson Blake in 1939 but this brochure seems to date from c1950 and indeed states that ‘stencilled letter-forms have had no place in the spate of type designs which in recent years, has descended with such fury upon the unsuspecting printer and typographer.’
This sample page is intended to show the utility of the Tea-Chest typeface and takes the form of two 'adverts'. Although using two well-known brands these adverts may be 'real' or simply drawn up for the brochure. The page shows Tea-Chest combined with Scarab and Verona typefaces.
Mann's Brown Ale was brewed by the then long established brewers Mann, Crossman & Paulin who were based in London's East End and who merged with Watney, Combe & Reid in 1958. The dreaded Watney's was to swamp the merged companies and ended up with a dire reputation although oddly, Mann's Brown Beer survives as a niche product and is brewed in Burtonwood in the north west of England (although I was surprised to see that this brewery is now know as "Thomas Hardy). The "ordinary" referred to is the penny-farthing bicycle shown in the engraving.
The Lund Humpries book on artist Paul Nash was one of a series of art books produced by the publisher who in the post-war years played a major role in the re-establishment of fine printing and publishing in the UK.