Antique Market Ampersand
My friend Maggie found this at the antique market in Alamo Square.
My friend Maggie found this at the antique market in Alamo Square.
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Nice and simple red on yellow ampersands. Outside a small store/deli on Nob Hill.
Jakes writes: So I was screwing around in Bio today, with the USB microscopes. A handout we’d been given had a nice large ampersand in the title (comic sans, I believe, but that’s not the point). I put the two together, and have uploaded some shots of ampersands under a microscope, at 10x magnification, to [...]
The ampersand gave me the excuse to post Jeff Canham’s work. Lots of hand lettering, signage, and Tijuana Brass inspired stuff.
We heart it.
From Andy’s self published book of illustrations.
A nice ampersand from the Chicago El signage at the “North & Clybourn” station: from Fuzzy.
(in song titles.) A last.fm group. Description: For anyone who despises the use of ampersands in artist/album/song titles. eg, how “Iron and Wine” is automatically scrobbled to “Iron & Wine” even though on his latest album no ampersand is… Thanks Mary.
Jon sent this photo he found on Shorpy. There are a few really nice ampersands hidden away in this image—which is too huge to post and too detailed to shrink down. The caption on shorpy: Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1900. “Old Corner Bookstore, first brick building in Boston.” Detroit Publishing Company 8×10 glass negative.