Wells & Co. trade card (label)
Description
Small 19th century engraved trade card (label) of Wells & Co. pasted onto shiny mount. Manuscript ink note in John Bedford's hand 'small leatherbound workbox' suggests where the label may have been used. Trader details in a variety of typefaces with decorative flourishes in circular beadwork frame. Transcription: Wells & Co. Pocket Book, Portable Desk, Drefsing [Dressing] Case & Copying Machine Makers To His Royal Highness THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND, Cockspur St [Street]. London (No. 29)
Wells & Co. trade card (label) - image 1
Small 19th century engraved trade card (label) of Wells & Co. pasted onto shiny mount. Manuscript ink note in John Bedford's hand 'small leatherbound workbox' suggests where the label may have been used. Trader details in a variety of typefaces with decorative flourishes in circular beadwork frame. Transcription: Wells & Co. Pocket Book, Portable Desk, Drefsing [Dressing] Case & Copying Machine Makers To His Royal Highness THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND, Cockspur St [Street]. London (No. 29)
Wells & Co. trade card (label) - image 2
Small 19th century engraved trade card (label) of Wells & Co. pasted onto shiny mount. Manuscript ink note in John Bedford's hand 'small leatherbound workbox' suggests where the label may have been used. Trader details in a variety of typefaces with decorative flourishes in circular beadwork frame. Transcription: Wells & Co. Pocket Book, Portable Desk, Drefsing [Dressing] Case & Copying Machine Makers To His Royal Highness THE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND, Cockspur St [Street]. London (No. 29)
Metadata
| Identifier | yhtbv6lc |
| IRN | 721354 |
| Class Mark | MS 2241/4/3/43 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/yhtbv6lc |
| Collection(s) | Art and Antique Market, John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History |
| Category | Archive |
| Technique | engraving |
| Medium | |
| Support | paper |
| Object | width 25mm height 30mm |
| Parent Record | Furniture Trade Cards, Billheads and Miscellaneous Ephemera |
| Creator(s) | Wells & Co. |
| Date | c.1820 |
| Size and Medium | 1 trade card (label) |