Comb Makers (1 results)

Single sheet, 245 x 185 mm. a little foxed, old folds. "To the Humane and Sympathising Public. This is to Certify that the Bearers are a party of Tradesmen who have been thrown out of employment by the rapid improvements in Machinery, as one man and a boy can do the work of ten men. We are Comb-makers, and in this, our trade, it has caused the deepest depression, and this being the state of things, we are compelled, with many others, to throw ourselves upon the charity of the humane and benevolent public, until such time as our trade flourishes." A handbill which would have been distributed among the wealthy and middle class houses of London in the hope and expectation of relief.