R. Jaekel trade card

Description

Highly pictorial and colourful 19th century chromolithographed trade card (advertisement) of R. Jaekel, depicting various items of mechanical furniture such as beds, toilets, garden furniture and wheelchairs on folded four sided sheet. Articulated flip paper image on front depicts mechanical sofa bed in two stages. When flat, a red sofa and when popped up, fold out bed with moustached man inside. Bed is described as 'A miracle of furniture technology. 20,000 pieces in use. Best bed sofa in the world!' Humorous rhyme on front advertises the fold out bed including pun on “Patent”, also an adjective meaning practical in German.

Media

Metadata

Identifier	fbw7jt45
IRN	718642
Class Mark	MS 2241/4/1/202
Level	Item
Type of Record	Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link	http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/fbw7jt45
Collection(s)	Art and Antique Market, John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Category	Archive
Technique	chromolithograph
Medium	print
Support	pasteboard
Object	width 95mm height 150mm
Parent Record	Metalwork and Continental Trade Cards
Creator(s)	R. Jaekel, Karl W. Schilling
Date	c.1890
Size and Medium	1 trade card

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