Finance and Trade ephemera. Box 1.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Mostly before 1850, mostly in London. Trades include: the Amicable Society of Cripplegate Ward Without (1745), art lessons, art supplies, billiard table makers, Birmingham (various traders in high Street, New Street, factors and miscellaneous, 1800-1818), boot blacking makers, Booksellers and circulating libraries, walking stick / cane makers, carpenters, cabinet makers, upholsterers, chimney sweeps, night soil men (sewage disposal), clock and watch makers, coach makers, cork cutters, enamel makers, engravers (Mr. van den Berghe), fancy goods (Gaspard Ibert, Grenoble, c. 1730), finance, florists (flower roots fom Holland, 1756, 1758), furniture, gun makers (Hinton's gunpowder, London, 1789), goldsmiths and jewellers (Briscoe, 1749, 1759), lotteries, mathematical instrument makers (theodolite, spirit level, universal dial by Thomas Heath), music, dancing and guitar lessons, notaries, painter and gilders, bog peat (for fuel), pens, pest control ('bugs' - 1754, 1760), piano makers, porters and carpet beaters, printers (Ernst Ludwig Presse in Damstadt, Gutenberg Gesellschaft in Mainz : 1928?), print shops, theatre ticket sales, carvers, gilders, riding school (Bath, 1798), Sealing wax makers, short-hand courses (1722, 1750, 1754), sieve makers ( G. Fraser - to Apothecaries Hall), stationers, marquee, tent and hay rick cloth makers, local tours in horse-drawn carriages (Ripon), toys, perfume, brushes, cutlery, combs, Tunbridge ware and a list of traders in Birmingham High Street including: John Cope (druggist), Thomas Wood (bookseller, stationer and medicine vender), John Wright and Sons Ltd. (bookmark : Bristol).