Striking a Bargain

Description

Farmers Syd Metcalfe and John Richardson negotiating the sale of a cow outside a farm in Thornton Rust ( Wensleydale). Mr. Richardson continues the haggling. The hand gestures of the two men suggest that they are about to strike a bargain. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1596. Parts of the negotiating conversation are recorded on the card in ms., including reference to the tradition of the seller paying the buyer luck money. Card 3 in a series of 5. Originally held in Photo File: Markets and Auctions (Bargains).

Metadata

Identifier jnjb7mv6
IRN 412546
Class Mark LAVC/PHO/P1597
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/jnjb7mv6
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Market and Auctions: Photocards
Creator(s) Kissling, Werner
Date July 1964
Size and Medium 1 mounted photographic print.

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