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William Plowman trade card (advertisement)

Archive Item: MS 2241/4/1/135 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: William Plowman trade card (advertisement)

Level: Item

Classmark: MS 2241/4/1/135

Site Location(s): Based in - Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.7522, -1.25596 )

Date(s): c.1840

Size and medium: 1 trade card (advertisement)

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/j26c3q6m

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/718575

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

Description

Elaborate 19th century engraved trade card of William Plowman with large embossed border and illustrations (clockwise from top left) of range, two lamps, stove, man mixing paint, man turning metal, metal gate, fence and two men working over anvil. Trader details in a variety of typefaces with decorative flourishes.


Transcription: WM [WILLIAM] PLOWMAN. General & Furnishing Ironmonger, SMITH, BRAZIER,TINMAN, BRUSH Factor, Oil & Colour Merchant. LOCKSMITH & BELLHANGER. High St[reet] Near Magdalen College, OXFORD. Table Knives And Fine Warranted Cutlery. Hip, Slipper, Shower & Hot Air Baths to be Sold or Let on Hire. Improv'd Kitchen & Back Boiler Rangers, Steam Cooking Apparatus, Smoke & Wind up Jacks. Every description of Bronz'd & Plated Goods, Table Lamps &c. Genuine Sperm & other Oils. REGISTER, Eliptic, Rumford, SHOP & OTHER STOVES. Dealer in Bar, Rod & Hoop Iron. Genuine ground white Lead & Ready Mix'd Paints. Fancy Iron Work of every description for Parks & Pleasure Grounds. All kinds of Kitchen Furn[nishings] in Copper, Iron & Tin. BEILBY & KNOTTS

Physical characteristics

Technique: engraving

Medium: print

Support: embossed card

Object: width 150mm height 110mm

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