More Furniture Trade Cards Of Old London
July 6, 2012
After recently publishing a selection of furniture trade cards that might have been found in the secret drawer of a hypothetical cabinet in the eighteenth century, it is my pleasure to show this further selection discovered stashed behind a plate on the top shelf of a hypothetical alcove.
Images courtesy Bishopsgate Institute
You may like to see my earlier selections
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Ah, I wept with joy when I saw these!
I’m always fascinated by the findings in the hypothetical house and look forward to seeing if anything else has slipped into a forgotten corner.
I love the long list of artefacts in the second ad, especially “squirrel houses, chains and collars”. Did people keep squirrels as pets? Or perhaps catch them and fatten them up to eat!
Umbrelloes! Mahogany voiders!
(That is indeed a great list.)