Tea-Chest, a stencil type : specimen brochure issued by Stephenson Blake, Sheffield, c1950 - specimen advert
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.’
The type face is shown here alongside Bodoni in a mock up advert for the fashionable shoe shops of Lilley & Skinner. The UK chain had its origins with a Mr Lilley in London in 1835 but the name came about when the founder's son joined forces with a family member, a Mr Lilley, in 1881. They made and sold shoes until taken over by the Sears backed British Shoe Corporation in 1961. By the 1990s this group was broken up although the brand name survives. I love the fact that Lilley & Skinner's flagship branch on Oxford St in London was "London's shoe rendezvous"! That and the 'shoeperlatively'.
Tea-Chest, a stencil type : specimen brochure issued by Stephenson Blake, Sheffield, c1950 - specimen advert
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.’
The type face is shown here alongside Bodoni in a mock up advert for the fashionable shoe shops of Lilley & Skinner. The UK chain had its origins with a Mr Lilley in London in 1835 but the name came about when the founder's son joined forces with a family member, a Mr Lilley, in 1881. They made and sold shoes until taken over by the Sears backed British Shoe Corporation in 1961. By the 1990s this group was broken up although the brand name survives. I love the fact that Lilley & Skinner's flagship branch on Oxford St in London was "London's shoe rendezvous"! That and the 'shoeperlatively'.