Furniture Trade Cards of Old London
June 30, 2012
Just when I thought I had published all the eighteenth century trade cards there were to be found, I discovered these old furniture trade cards hidden in the secret drawer of a hypothetical cabinet.
Images courtesy Bishopsgate Institute
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Without doubt, my favourite series. A nation of shopkeepers indeed.
Fascinating – I wonder at what point undertaking and cabinet making became separate careers?
Ah, glorious!
If you live by furniture, you die by furniture.