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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
Sterling Trade Mark London
1920s?
Pen and black ink over graphite, on paper and illustration board.
16 1/4 x 11 1/16 inches (412 x 281 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1637
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Logo design by E.J. Sullivan for the Sterling Telephone Electric Company in London.
Triangular logo design is drawn on a separate piece of paper mounted onto illustration board.
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Text within the logo design reads: Sterling Trade Mark London; below, lower right, "Sketch for key blocks; to be printed in pale blue (semi-opaque) on orange: the lightening to be cut out in white-and the trumpets to be printed in blue only.
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Inverted triangular logo, incorporating sun, moons, a figure blowing a trumpet, and bolts of lightening gripped by a fist emerging from a cloud; with text at top: Sterling; flanked by words: Trade [logo] Mark; Below: London.
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