Elegant antique calligraphy plate featuring ornamental English script, Zierl. Englisch in its original German title, with very broad swells and hairlines. Its fluid, sweeping graphic style, printed in black, makes it a beautiful document for a graphic designer, calligrapher, sign painter, or lover of antique typography. It comes from the Schriften-Schatz, a collection of alphabet and script models published around 1890 in Ravensburg by Otto Maier, under the direction of Albert Schiller.
✦ Period: circa 1890 ✦ Provenance: Germany, Albert Schiller's Schriften-Schatz ✦ Dimensions: approximately 30.5 x 20 cm ✦ Material: lithograph on heavy paper ✦ Condition: good used condition; paper slightly yellowed with some discreet age-related foxing, visible in the photos
An authentic late 19th-century lettering plate, ideal for typographic inspiration, framing, or decorating a creative studio.
