Superb set of three antique lettering plates, featuring Renaissance script with elaborate flourishes, a display alphabet with graphic lines, and a traditional Gothic German alphabet. The compositions in black, red, and green make for a beautiful collection for a graphic designer, calligrapher, sign painter, or lover of antique typography. They come from the Schriften-Schatz, a collection of alphabet and script templates published around 1890 in Ravensburg by Otto Maier, under the direction of Albert Schiller.
✦ Period: circa 1890 ✦ Origin: Germany, Albert Schiller's Schriften-Schatz ✦ Dimensions: approximately 30.5 x 20 cm each ✦ Material: lithographs on heavy paper ✦ Condition: used condition; paper slightly yellowed, foxing, creases, and small handwritten marks visible in the photos, with a few small losses along the edges
An authentic set of late 19th-century lettering plates, ideal for typographic inspiration, framing, or decorating a creative studio.
