On CD

Decorative Designing Co.
New York Stencil Co.
Stencil Company of N.Y.
Stencil Treasury
Wiggers & Trischka

5 Color Pages

• Designs for Walls & Ceilings
• All-Over (Diaper) Patterns
• Corner Motifs
• Frame and Edging Patterns
• Center Motifs
• Figural Motifs
• Hand-drawn & Shaded Moldings
• More

This is a fine reproduction of a collection of illustrated advertising sheets and loose catalog pages. The decorative stencils and designs on the original sheets were printed in full color, half-tone, and B&W. We are estimating the date as 1889, since that year is printed on one page.

The stencils and designs in this collection are attributed to the New York firms of Wiggers & Trischka, the Decorative Designer [Designing] Co., the Stencil Company of N.Y. and the New York Stencil Company. As well as having originally created them, these firms also sold reuseable full-size pattern sheets for their stencils and designs.

In addition to designs and stencils, one page includes both a formula for "squirt relief work", and a description of how to apply the mixture. "Squirt relief" was apparently a method of applying a type of low-relief decoration similar to that used in forming ribbons and flowers for cake icing. At least one of the full-color plates and a few of the B&W plates seem to illustrate this decorating technique.

This catalog is also available as a printed book.

See more catalogs like this in our Decorative Arts Department.

We have not merely scanned this book at a high resolution. Just as we do for all our fine printed reproductions, all images have been professionally repaired and restored. And all images have been color-corrected.

This reproduction catalog on CD is meant to be a permanent reference. Our fine printed reproductions are already in some museum research libraries. This item includes:

• CD with entire book in easy-to-use Adobe Acrobat® (PDF) format.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader® for Mac and Windows PC.

You can even print out enlarged versions of the designs. (Most printers support this feature.)

Available for Windows PC and Mac. Our installation CD includes Adobe Acrobat Reader® Version 6 for Windows PC and Versions 6 and 7 for Mac. Updates and other versions may be downloaded free from the Adobe site.