Yet More Trade Cards of Old London
June 1, 2012
After publishing selections of trade cards that might have been found in the eighteenth century by rummaging in a hypothetical drawer, searching down the back of a hypothetical sofa or under a hypothetical bed, it is my pleasure to show this further selection discovered beneath the hypothetical floorboards.
Images courtesy Bishopsgate Institute
You may like to see my earlier selections
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I love the disembodied Legg!
The boarding house announces: “Parents or Guardians may depend on the utmost care taken of the Young Ladies morals and manners, and a particular tenderness shown to their persons.”
Hmmm.
Ooh! I’d love a perriwigg box….and some vermichelly