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About this object

  • ID:

    Z1704/187

  • Production date:

    1760

  • Location:

    In Store

  • Copper-engraved trade card publicising the business of Edward Clarke tea merchant and supplier of India fans, lacquerware and china and glass located at the sign of the Crown and Canister opposite the London punch house on Ludgate Hill. The trade card engraved by S (possibly Samuel). Baker includes a depiction of the tradesman's sign of a tea canister surmounted by a crown enclosed within a decorative cartouche. A handwritten invoice on the reverse of the trade card dated April 17th 1760 refers to the supply of coffee cups, tongs, basins and other household goods to Mrs Hucks.

  • Measurements

    H 220 mm; L 190 mm

  • Materials

    paper

  • Last Updated

    2024-05-21

FURTHER INFORMATION
  • NUMBER OF ITEMS

    1

  • STATUS

    permanent collection

  • COPYRIGHT HOLDER

    digital image copyright Museum of London

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