Further Trade Cards of Old London
June 20, 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, looking under a hypothetical bed, discovered beneath the hypothetical floorboards, or happened upon in the pockets of a hypothetical coat, it is my pleasure to show this further selection that fell out of a hypothetical book.
Images courtesy Bishopsgate Institute
You may like to see my earlier selections
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Dear Gentle author,
Is it known roughly when the cards were published?
Mr Henry Patten appears to be vending an impressive range of 18th century laptop computers.
I like the unpretentiousness of Mr. Higginbotham’s fish.
And the sound of “Great Choice of curious White Silk Worm Gut, just come over.”
Dear site – would you have anything on ‘Gunnell’s Hat Warehouse’ of Chandois Str. Covent Garden run/owned by Anne Rozea in the 1750’s – hats and cloaks, caps and silks of all kinds?