James Egan trade card
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Type of record: Archive
Title: James Egan trade card
Classmark: MS 2241/4/3/162
Creator(s): James Egan
Site Location(s): Based in - Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, Europe( 52.0598, -9.50858 )
Date(s): c.1865
Size and medium: 1 trade card
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/lgs4db26
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721473
Collection group(s): Art and Antique Market | John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Simple 19th century letterpress trade card of James Egan. Trader details in a variety of typefaces inside decorative border edging card. Manuscript mathematical calculations in pencil on reverse.
Transcription: JAMES EGAN, ARBUTUS WORKS, No. 10, Main Street, Killarney, PATRONISED BY HER MAJESTY AND THE PRINCE OF WALES. EGAN solicits the inspection of Tourists to his large and varied Stock of Arbutus Work, consisting of Loo, Oval, and Card Tables, Tea, Sofa, and Trio Tables, Cabinets, Davenports, Cheffioniers, Chess Boards, Work Boxes, Writing Desks, &c., all inlaid in the most superb manner, together with a choice selection of Cabinets, Book-stands, and a variety of Ornaments in Irish Bog Oak. All manufactured under his own supervision. Facsimiles of the magnificent Cabinet and Table made for the Queen on her visit to the Lakes, to be seen at the Depot. Tourists should not be advised by Touters or Hawkers on the streets or roads.
Physical characteristics
Technique: letterpress
Medium: print
Support: pasteboard
Object: width 123mm height 92mm
Access and usage
Access
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