Comments on: Roy Gardner’s Sales Tickets https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/26/roy-gardners-sales-tickets-x/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 27 Oct 2017 21:43:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Bailey Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/26/roy-gardners-sales-tickets-x/#comment-1176870 Fri, 27 Oct 2017 21:43:33 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161286#comment-1176870 Fascinating and so of another era. Imagine how upset we’d be to see signs or labels stating ‘foreign’. It takes me back to 1960s when I was a small girl observing elderly relatives shaking their heads at labels with the words ‘made in Hong Kong’ as if the end of the world was nigh. I remember an aunt taking me to a proper grocer’s with brown paper bags, tickets like the ones Paul’s father created and assistants in brown overalls who were very subservient. It wasn’t so posh down the market but they still had signs like these.

It is great to think the market sundries shop is still going, especially given the unfair rent rises.

Very good hand drawn material; such neat and patient handiwork.
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]]> By: Marcia Howard https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/26/roy-gardners-sales-tickets-x/#comment-1176654 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 21:20:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161286#comment-1176654 With such care taken over his signs, you know the goods would be top class too. Wonderful to see such a precise artistic trait

]]> By: Colin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/26/roy-gardners-sales-tickets-x/#comment-1176624 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 17:59:45 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161286#comment-1176624 For hand drawn his rendering of Gill Sans is pretty good, especially on a curve

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/26/roy-gardners-sales-tickets-x/#comment-1176563 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 10:25:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161286#comment-1176563 Greetings from Boston,

GA, interesting piece about a trade probably long passed. Signs no doubt computer generated today.

Fun to see those hefty letters sketched out on graph paper. It was an art …

]]> By: Phil Maxwell https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/26/roy-gardners-sales-tickets-x/#comment-1176553 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:15:13 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161286#comment-1176553 Wonderful graphic typography.

]]> By: Philip Marriage https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/26/roy-gardners-sales-tickets-x/#comment-1176552 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:06:28 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161286#comment-1176552 To this ex-typographers eye these are simply a delight.

]]> By: Caroline Bottomley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/26/roy-gardners-sales-tickets-x/#comment-1176521 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 05:26:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161286#comment-1176521 How engaging.
Must have been very satisfying to make & sell

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/26/roy-gardners-sales-tickets-x/#comment-1176519 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 05:14:04 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161286#comment-1176519 The lettering is really professional, he did a great job. Valerie

]]> By: Jim McDermott https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/10/26/roy-gardners-sales-tickets-x/#comment-1176453 Wed, 25 Oct 2017 23:08:56 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=161286#comment-1176453 The work of a more painstaking age! I thought ‘don’t squeeze me until I’m yours’ very resonant, given the current #metoo revelations.

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