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Birmingham trade catalogue for Timothy Smith of brass handles, escutcheons, hinges

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection C417

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Type of record: Book

Title: Birmingham trade catalogue for Timothy Smith of brass handles, escutcheons, hinges

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection C417

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Smith, Timothy (Former owner); Timothy Smith, Brassfounders (Birmingham, England) (Creator); Sammlung Sutter Samedan (Former owner)

Publisher: [publisher not identified]

Publication city: [Birmingham?]

Date(s): [1778?]

Language: English

Size and medium: 107 numbered leaves of plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/740033

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020003995905181

Description

The plates are numbered until 101.


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Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C417: two loose notes in John Bedford's hand identifying Timothy Smith (and Sons) brassfounders at various addresses in Birmingham from c.1777-1823, and collating the plates.


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Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C417: contemporary quarter calf, red paste paper [Germanic?] over boards [worn].

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C417: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: TC/M/38. MS. inscription on front pastedown in Italian: Libro di mostre [book of samples or exhibition book] de SRS [sirs?] Timothy Smith figlio [son], e Smitte di Bermingham [i.e. Smith of Birmingham, brassfounders]. Libro di mostre de SR Timotthy Smitte figlio & Smitte di Bermingham @ 8 Mazio [March] 1778. Black ink stamp on front pastedown: Sammlung [Collection] Sutter Samedan A [Sutter Collection in possibly Samedan, Switzerland?].

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