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Hancock trade card (advertisement)

  • Original object type: Artefact
  • Title: Hancock trade card (advertisement)
  • Description:

    Highly pictorial 19th century engraved trade card of Hancock with large image of shop front filling card, with double lined border. Wares are displayed in each pane of windows, with a large lamp on decorative metal bracket above the door. Four figures visible inside through the doorway, a young boy with cap leaving the shop, a seated woman with bonnett and umbrella and two figures with hats in the distance. On a ledge above the roof is a display of large decorative metalware urns, jugs and candlesticks, with trader details inscribed on a metal tag.

    Transcription: HANCOCK Jeweller, Silversmith, Cutler &c. 12 New Street, BIRMINGHAM. Cottrell Sct.

  • Date range: 1823
  • Date: 1823
  • Depositing User: - libemu
  • Date Deposited: 24 Mar 2021 18:56
  • Last Modified: 24 Mar 2021 18:56