Trade Cards [and labels]
Contains records with digital mediaDetails
Type of record: Archive
Title: Trade Cards [and labels]
Classmark: MS 2241/4
Date(s): c.1680-c.1999
Size and medium: 5 boxes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/678231
Collection group(s): Art and Antique Market | John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Original trade cards and trade labels/plates (added to pieces of furniture) relating to furniture makers as collected by John Bedford.
Includes:
1) 3 boxes of trade cards relating to metalwork and various trades. Includes some billheads.
2) Colour photocopies of trade and maker plates/stamps
3) Notes and reference material relating to trade cards
4) 1 boxed book containing trade labels for carvers and gilders and picture frame manufacturers
Wikidata entities have been created for the tradespeople with trade cards in this sub-collection. The entities are for the traders, not the cards so there is one entity for each trader even if they have more than one card in the collection. Records have not been created for traders with billheads etc.
The group Wikidata entity 'Tradespeople with cards in the John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History' contains links to the records for the individual traders. See https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107611235
System of arrangement
Each file level record for MS 2241/4/1 - 3 represents an original binder of trade cards collected by John Bedford.
Access and usage
Access
This collection is subject to various access conditions. Please see individual catalogue descriptions for further details on access.