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Mawer & Co. trade card

Archive Item: MS 2241/4/3/157 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Mawer & Co. trade card

Level: Item

Classmark: MS 2241/4/3/157

Creator(s): Mawer & Co.; John Swain

Site Location(s): Based in - London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom( 51.5085, -0.12574 )

Date(s): c.1850

Size and medium: 1 trade card

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/j5ytb1hq

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721468

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

Description

Pictorial 19th century lithographed trade card of Mawer & Co. Trader details in a variety of typefaces. Shop front depicted on reverse with company horse and cart in foreground to left, with streetlamp to right.


Transcription: MAWER & CO., Upholsterers and General House Furnishers, 133 & 135 BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROAD, CORNER OF BELGRAVE ROAD. N.B. The 13 Show Rooms at the above address, and Warehouse, 1 & 3, Belgrave Road, are now complete with a Stock of genuine Second-hand FURNITURE, LOOKING GLASSES, new BEDSTEADS and BEDDING. AN INSPECTION INVITED. ESTABLISHED 23 YEARS. Estimates Given for Re-Upholstering Furniture and Re-making Bedding, also the Removal or Warehousing of Furniture. Household Effects Purchased for Cash or Exchanged. N.B. - 133 is specially devoted to Bedsteads and Bedding

Physical characteristics

Technique: lithograph

Medium: print

Support: pasteboard

Object: width 114mm height 75mm

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