Stainless Steel Letters

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Stainless Steel Signs

Stainless Steel Signs.

BAE Systems sign made from stainless steel. Stainless steel letters mounted onto a stainless steel panel.

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Stainless Steel Letters

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An example of a stainless steel letter ‘B’ 250mm high, 3mm thick with 50mm long rod fixings on the back.

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Image of Stainless Steel ampersand, brushed finish with stand off fixings on the back. Stainless Steel Letters.

Etymology

The word ampersand is a corruption of the phrase “and per se and”, meaning “and [the symbol which] by itself [is] and”.  The  Scots and  Scottish English name for & is epershand, derived from “et per se and”, with the same meaning.

Traditionally, in English-speaking schools when reciting the  alphabet, any letter that could also be used as a word in itself (“A,” “I,” and, at one point, “O”) was preceded by the Latin expression “per se” (Latin for “by itself”). Also, it was common practice to add at the end of the alphabet the “&” sign, pronounced “and”. Thus, the recitation of the alphabet would end in: “X, Y, Z and per se and.” This last phrase was routinely slurred to “ampersand” and the term crept into common English usage by around 1837.

Through folk etymology, it has been claimed that  André-Marie Ampére used the symbol in his widely read publications, and that people began calling the new shape “Ampere’s and”.

History

The ampersand can be traced back to the first century A.D. and the Old Roman cursive, in which the letters E and T occasionally were written together to form a ligature (figure 1). In the later and more flowing New Roman Cursive, ligatures of all kinds were extremely common; figure 2 and 3 from the middle of 4th century are both examples of how the et-ligature could look in this script. However, during the following development of the Latin script that led up to the Carolingian minuscule (9th century), while the use of ligatures in general diminished, the et-ligature continued to be used and gradually became more stylized and less revealing of its origin.

The modern italic type ampersand is a kind of et-ligature that goes back to the cursive scripts developed during the Renaissance. After the advent of printing in Europe in 1455, printers made extensive use of both the italic and Roman ampersands. Since the ampersand’s roots go back to Roman times, many languages that use a variation of the Latin alphabet make use of it.

The ampersand often appeared as a letter at the end of the Latin alphabet, as for example in Byrhtferð’s list of letters from 1011.Similarly, & was regarded as the 27th letter of the English Alphabet, as used by children (in the USA). An example may be seen in M. B. Moore’s 1863 book The Dixie Primer, for the Little Folks. In her 1859 novel Adam Bede, George Eliot refers to this when she makes Jacob Storey say, “He thought it [Z] had only been put to finish off th’ alphabet like; though ampusand would ha’ done as well, for what he could see.”

The ampersand should not be confused with the Tironian “et”, which is a symbol similar to the numeral 7. Both symbols have their roots in the classical antiquity, and both signs were used up through the Middle Ages as a representation for the Latin word “et” (“and”). However, while the ampersand was in origin a common ligature in the everyday script, the Tironian “et” was part of a highly specialised stenographic  shorthand.

The above text was taken from Wikipedia. Thank you Wikipedia     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand

The Letter A

I am not one for many words, my websites depend on images instead to drive traffic to my sites. This is an image of a built up stainless steel letter with a brushed finish for use on a Shop Front Sign. The image was taken 2005.

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Stainless Steel Letters

Had to add this image of a Stainless Steel £ sign. It was 100mm high.
A top quality product.

Stainless Steel '£' Polished face and sides with blended edges