Summer sale of surplus stock – Antique Wall Art
![Summer sale of surplus stock, [between 1900 and 1930] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/00/00ddd571208d-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Summer sale of surplus stock comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Summer sale of surplus stock
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This German color lithograph advertises a summer clearance of surplus stock, and its subjects, alphabets and typesetting in Stuttgart, point to the city's printing and type-founding trades in the early twentieth century. Printers and type foundries often sold off unused or outdated type and equipment to make room for new faces, and advertisements like this one used bright lithographic color to catch the eye of shop owners and compositors. The record dates the piece only to between 1900 and 1930, so the exact firm and occasion are not known, but the image offers a glimpse of how commercial printing promoted itself during those decades.
| Created / published | [between 1900 and 1930] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Advertisements German 1900-1930.Lithographs German Color 1900-1930. |
| Subjects | Alphabets (Writing systems)--1900-1930. Typesetting--Germany--Stuttgart--1900-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 975 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-161995 |
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