Trade Broadside (5 results)

Broadside, 6" x 9-3/8". Fine. A new firm was birthed by J.M. McCombs, F.M. McCombs, and George Taylor of Boston "under the firm name of McCombs, Taylor & Co., and will continue the business of the Atlanta Machine Works in all its various branches. Our Mr. Taylor who will have charge of the Mechanical Department of our works, is an inventor of Machinery, Draftsman and Mechanical Engineer of over twenty years experience. We are prepared to build Engines and Boilers, Gold Mills Pulleys, Shafting and Hangings, Switch Stands and Railroad Castings Elevators and Hoisting Machines, Steam Pumps." and other stuff too.

Broadside, 5-3/8" x 8-1/2". Very Good.

Folio broadside printed on one side only (440 x 285 mm), light age toning, folded. Trade advert for Léon Clerc & Charles of 48, Commercial Street, London, 3 columns of describing goods supplied along with their prices.

Condition: Very good condition. Full color lithographed catalog page of the New York porcelain importer George F Bassett & Company, showing 8 plates with in an "Wild Animal" series, decorated with graphics of animals and the alphabet, including one of the kangaroo. The company was founded in 1874; it had a factory in Limoges, France and imported porcelain from Bohemian and Czechoslovakian factories. The plates are decorated primarily in brown and green- animals include tiger, leopard, stag, elephant, bear, camel & lion. 9 1/4 x 15 3/4". Closed tear lower border, lower left margin in the corner missing, not affecting illustrated area. Very unusual.

*The flag on Allin's shop appears to be a variant of the Union Jack, and assuming that is correct, it would imply that the date for the print is 'not before' 1801, when the Union Jack was designed, following the Act of Union 1801, which united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland (previously in personal union) to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The architecture and the design of the clothes of a couple of figures shown would indicate a time frame of the first couple of decades of the 19th century. The slogan 'LADIES NEW INVENTED STAYS' provides another clue as 'Stays' was the term used for the fully boned laced bodices worn under clothes from the late 16th or early 17th century, until the end of the 18th century. A related view dated 1822 may be seen on BIRMINGHAM HISTORICAL FORUM. The copyright imprint is not recorded in the BRITISH BOOK TRADE INDEX.