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John Hosking trade card

Archive Item: MS 2241/4/1/40 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: John Hosking trade card

Level: Item

Classmark: MS 2241/4/1/40

Creator(s): John Hosking; Mitchell

Site Location(s): Based in - Redruth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, Europe( 50.2332, -5.22434 )

Date(s): c.1835

Size and medium: 1 trade card

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/mspbqbf5

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/718480

Collection group(s): Art and Antique Market | John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History

Description

Pictorial 19th century engraved trade card of John Hosking, depicting stoves, ranges and gates of various designs. Trader details in a variety of typefaces with decorative flourishes.


Transcription: JN. [JOHN] HOSKING. Furnishing Ironmonger & Manufacturer. FORE STREET on the Falmouth Road, Redruth. Cutlery & Japannery. Black & bright Rumford Stoves. Best Birmingham Tea Urns. Improved Kitchen Stove Apparatus for boiling, baking, steaming and roasting with one fire. Kitchen Ranges & Register Stoves, Ovens and half Registers &c. Common field Gates, Hurdles for dividing of Land. Viranda [Veranda] & fancy Iron Work of every description for Parks and Pleasure Grounds. Patent Jacks & Reflectors, Smoke & wind up Jacks. Smiths Work in all its Branches. MITCHELL, TRURO.

Physical characteristics

Technique: engraving

Medium: print

Support: paper

Object: width 112mm height 76mm

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