The Victorian Ironmonger
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- Author(s) Meadows, Cecil A
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2000
- Pages 3rd ed; 32pp; illus
- Publisher Shire Publications
- Place Published Princes Risborough
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- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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First edition 1978. Overview of the origins and development of ironmongery retailing and wholesaling with some references to the era of manufacturing. Heavily illustrated. Sections include: 'Origins of the name and trade'; 'Trade signs'; 'Growth and decline of the furnishing ironmonger'; 'Supplies and inventions'; 'Purchasing methods'; 'Trading and delivery'; 'Price codes and stock marking'; 'Manufacturing'; 'The stocks'. Contains illustrations of several pages of a 1885 trade catalogue of Piper, Theobald & Co of Norwich