Allen trade card
Description
Pictorial 19th century engraved trade card of Allen [Abraham Allen] depicting carved table with curtained windows with view of trees through and carved table in centre. Trader details in a variety of typefaces with decorative flourishes. Street number 61 ensconced in decorative oval in centre of card. Print marks visible, framing uncut card. Transcription: New Furniture Warehouse 61 PALL MALL Designer & Manufacturer ALLEN Has the honor to acquaint the Nobility and Gentry, that he has open'd private Ware Rooms, for the exprefs [express] purpose of supplying the most fashionable Furniture Calicoes at such moderate charges that he shall have no Competitor: And in order to merit the patronage of the Nobility & Gentry, he undertakes to make up every kind of furniture to which such goods are adapted with an Elegance & taste not usually met with. NB. Elegant specimens of made up Drapery, for various purposes may be seen at the Warehouse as above. Girtin sct 8 Charles St. Midd. Hosp. [Middlesex Hospital]
Allen trade card - image 1
Pictorial 19th century engraved trade card of Allen [Abraham Allen] depicting carved table with curtained windows with view of trees through and carved table in centre. Trader details in a variety of typefaces with decorative flourishes. Street number 61 ensconced in decorative oval in centre of card. Print marks visible, framing uncut card. Transcription: New Furniture Warehouse 61 PALL MALL Designer & Manufacturer ALLEN Has the honor to acquaint the Nobility and Gentry, that he has open'd private Ware Rooms, for the exprefs [express] purpose of supplying the most fashionable Furniture Calicoes at such moderate charges that he shall have no Competitor: And in order to merit the patronage of the Nobility & Gentry, he undertakes to make up every kind of furniture to which such goods are adapted with an Elegance & taste not usually met with. NB. Elegant specimens of made up Drapery, for various purposes may be seen at the Warehouse as above. Girtin sct 8 Charles St. Midd. Hosp. [Middlesex Hospital]
Allen trade card - image 2
Pictorial 19th century engraved trade card of Allen [Abraham Allen] depicting carved table with curtained windows with view of trees through and carved table in centre. Trader details in a variety of typefaces with decorative flourishes. Street number 61 ensconced in decorative oval in centre of card. Print marks visible, framing uncut card. Transcription: New Furniture Warehouse 61 PALL MALL Designer & Manufacturer ALLEN Has the honor to acquaint the Nobility and Gentry, that he has open'd private Ware Rooms, for the exprefs [express] purpose of supplying the most fashionable Furniture Calicoes at such moderate charges that he shall have no Competitor: And in order to merit the patronage of the Nobility & Gentry, he undertakes to make up every kind of furniture to which such goods are adapted with an Elegance & taste not usually met with. NB. Elegant specimens of made up Drapery, for various purposes may be seen at the Warehouse as above. Girtin sct 8 Charles St. Midd. Hosp. [Middlesex Hospital]
Metadata
| Identifier | zfssyp21 |
| IRN | 721557 |
| Class Mark | MS 2241/4/3/246 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/zfssyp21 |
| Collection(s) | Art and Antique Market, John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History |
| Category | Archive |
| Technique | engraving |
| Medium | |
| Support | paper |
| Object | width 135mm height 225mm |
| Parent Record | Furniture Trade Cards, Billheads and Miscellaneous Ephemera |
| Creator(s) | Abraham Allen, John Girtin |
| Date | c.1810 |
| Size and Medium | 1 trade card |