This book page features an antique ornamental alphabet. It’s a lower-case German ornamental alphabet. Here is a black and white clip art version of the alphabet. For some extra fun, I’ve also grunged up this alphabet for you. I scanned the original book page from The Signists Modern Book of Alphabets, Plain Ornamental Ancient and…
Alphas and Monograms
Antique Calligraphy Alphabets
This book page features two beautiful antique calligraphy alphabets: Engrossing and Court Hand. Here is a black and white clip art version of the antique calligraphy alphabets. I have spread the letters across the page to fill an 8.5” x 11” paper size. Click HERE to save the full-size PDF file to your computer. I…
Ornamental Victorian Script Alphabet
This beautiful ornamental Victorian alphabet (initial script) was designed for engraving, fancy needlework, etc. Most of our modern-day alphabet is included on the two pages except the letters “X” and “I” or “J” Perhaps the letter included, whether it is intended to be an “I” or “J”, is interchangeable. I scanned the original pages from Hill’s…
Embroidered Monograms Clip Art
This vintage magazine clipping includes a variety of six beautiful embroidered monogram designs. The article includes instructions to transfer the designs with tissue paper but I’m thinking that modern-day transfer methods may be more efficient. Here is a black and white clip art version of the monograms. I scanned the original article from the January 1890…
Specimens of Monograms ~ Free Vintage Graphic
This vintage book page features beautifully designed specimens of monograms of two, three, four and nine letters. The page is from Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms, by Thos. E. Hill, 1886. Click on image to enlarge.
Standard Alphabets ~ Free Vintage Graphic
Here is a vintage page of four Standard Alphabets. The alphabets included on the page are: Antique Pointed Extended, Sign Language, Doric and Pointed Condensed. The page is from Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms, by Thos. E. Hill, 1886. Click on image to enlarge.
Ornamental Alphabets
Here are two pages of beautiful and elegant Victorian ornamental alphabets. All of the letters of our modern alphabet are included on the page titled New Ornamental Capitals but the “J” and “Z” are not included on the page titled Ornamental Initial Letters. The pages are from Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms, by Thos. E. Hill, 1886. Click…
Old English and Medieval Text
This aged page, from an antique book in my collection, includes three beautiful alphabets. They are: Old English Title Text, Old English Fancy Text and Medieval. Each of the wonderful old alphabets include both upper case and lower case formats. The page is from Hill’s Manual of Social and Business Forms, by Thos. E. Hill, 1886. Click on image to…
Free Vintage Image ~ Rustic Alphabet
This vintage Rustic alphabet is from The Signists Modern Book of Alphabets, 1906. I think the letters and numbers have a spooky feel to them and would work well for Halloween projects. Please note that this is a digital image that I’ve scanned from a page of a book; it is not a font to install on your computer. Click…
British Museum Vintage Alphabet Image
This is not a font to install on your computer. It is a scanned page from The Signists Modern Book of Alphabets, 1906. I didn’t realize until after I’d cleaned up the image and had it ready to upload here that some of the letters of our alphabet are not included. Hopefully there are enough…
