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George Richmond Collis & Co. trade card (advertisement)

Archive Item: MS 2241/4/1/68 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: George Richmond Collis & Co. trade card (advertisement)

Level: Item

Classmark: MS 2241/4/1/68

Creator(s): George Richmond Collis & Co.; Radclyffe & Co.

Site Location(s): Based in - Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom( 52.4814, -1.89983 )

Date(s): c.1839

Size and medium: 1 trade card (advertisement)

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/crp5319z

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/718508

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

Description

Highly pictorial 19th century engraved trade card (advertisement) of George Richmond Collis & Co., with large image filling card. Decorative cup in centre foreground, surrounded by other metalware items, with sculpture of man at end of pillared corridor in background. Printing plate used in 1839 Wrightson's Triennial Directory of Birmingham.


Transcription: GEORGE RICHMOND COLLIS & CO. LATE SIR EDWARD THOMASON, BIRMINGHAM. MANUFACTURER OF ARTICLES IN THE HIGHEST CLASSES OF THE ARTS, IN GOLD, SILVER, PLATED, ORMOLU & BRONZE. STRANGERS OF RESPECTABILITY ARE PERMITTED TO VIEW THE SHOW ROOMS & MANUFACTORY. IN THIS ESTABLISMENT IS MANUFACTURED Gold & Silver Plate, including Communion Plate, Racing Cups & Silver Mounted Plated Wares of every denomination, Plated Cutlery upon Steel Cut Glass, Bronzes & OrMolu Candleabra [Candelabra], many series of fine Medals in Gold, Silver & Bronze, and a variety of Medals adapted for Societies & Institutions, numerous Mechanical Inventions in the Metals & Papier Machee, Livery Button Dies Cut & the Buttons Manufactured. Radclyffe & Co.

Physical characteristics

Technique: engraving

Medium: print

Support: paper

Object: width 95mm height 155mm

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