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The Harness Makers' Guide. 



monograms upon harness are difficult to read, but whenever you 

 get a letter hatched or shaded as in the 

 accompanying cut, you may know that it 

 is to be understood as the initial of the 

 surname. Where there are more letters 

 thev are grouped according to the skill 

 of the artist, not jumbled up anyhow, 

 letter of the three is th\ 



Where one 



lade to stand out 



prominentlv, and where there is no reading from left 

 to right, a different course is adopted. Another three- 

 letter design is here depicted. The S is now the last 

 letter because you see it is hatched ; of the other two 

 the O is the smaller, therefore you are informed 

 that the reading is B.O.S. If you can think of these 

 easv rules vou will be able to make out a good many 

 of these devices, and take more interest in any 

 monogram of notable heads that you may meet with. 

 It is a fact that there are not a few people to whom 

 a monogram, composed of more than two letters, is as unintelligible 

 as a time-talDle or directory. They may, perhaps, know what the 

 letters in themselves are, but as to the order in which thev should 

 read them they are entirely ignorant. 



COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVING AND 

 DIE SINKING. 



Inscriptions or Monograms engraved, and all 

 classes of Copper-plate Engraving and Die Sinking 

 undertaken bv T. Kirby & Sons Limitedt Walsall. 



