Object Description
Engraved trade card for a London trunk and plate-case maker with a handwritten bill dated 1772 on verso.
The engraved inscription reads:
‘Chapman & Driver Trunk & Plate – Case Maker To their Royal Highnesses The Dukes of Gloucester & Cumberland. At the Kings Arms in Cockspur Street near Pall Mall, London. Make & sell, all sorts of travelling iron bound trunks, for travelling foreign roads, camp trunks, cover’d hampers, leather portmanteaus, leather duck & canvas valleases for bedding, canteens for liquors, all sorts of cases for plate, china, & glass, leather fire buckets, jacks, & bottles, gentlemans & ladys hat boxes & c. Wholesale & retail at reasonable rates.’
£1,500.00