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R. Jaekel trade card

Archive Item: MS 2241/4/1/202 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: R. Jaekel trade card

Level: Item

Classmark: MS 2241/4/1/202

Creator(s): R. Jaekel; Karl W. Schilling

Site Location(s): Based in - Berlin, Berlin State, Germany, Europe( 52.5244, 13.4105 ); Based in - Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe( 48.1374, 11.5755 )

Date(s): c.1890

Size and medium: 1 trade card

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/fbw7jt45

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/718642

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

Description

Highly pictorial and colourful 19th century chromolithographed trade card (advertisement) of R. Jaekel, depicting various items of mechanical furniture such as beds, toilets, garden furniture and wheelchairs on folded four sided sheet. Articulated flip paper image on front depicts mechanical sofa bed in two stages. When flat, a red sofa and when popped up, fold out bed with moustached man inside. Bed is described as 'A miracle of furniture technology. 20,000 pieces in use. Best bed sofa in the world!' Humorous rhyme on front advertises the fold out bed including pun on “Patent”, also an adjective meaning practical in German.

Physical characteristics

Technique: chromolithograph

Medium: print

Support: pasteboard

Object: width 95mm height 150mm

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