Broadside/Advertisement. Single sheet printed on both sides, Christmas Presents and New Year's Gifts, Wheeler & Wilson's Highest Premium Sewing Machine, (with) The Song of the Shirt by Hood.

Verlag: [Shrewsbury]: No date, No place [post 1863]. "D. Davis, Fancy Repository, Castle-street, Agent for Shrewsbury" printed to the tail of side.

Beschreibung

Broadside, (281x218mm), advertising Wheeler & Wilson's Highest Premium Sewing Machine with 'The Song of the Shirt' by Hood (originally published in 1843) detailing the drudgery of the life of a seamstress living in wretched conditions written in honour of a widow Mrs. Biddell, in one column with 'A Song over a Shirt' by 'As Good' in an adjacent column. To the verso are advertisements for various Wheeler & Wilson "Lock-Stitch" Sewing Machines with prices & International Exhibition Awards - the final Award being 1863. "D. Davis, Fancy Repository, Castle-street, Agent for Shrewsbury" printed to the tail of this side. Single sheet printed on both sides, one small ink spot, worn, discoloured & snagged to margins only, with the text very good condition. Wheeler & Wilson was an American company which produced sewing machines. The company was started as a partnership between Allen B Wilson and Nathaniel Wheeler after Wheeler agreed to help Wilson mass-produce a sewing machine he designed. The two launched their enterprise in the early 1850s, and quickly gained widespread acclamation for their machines' designs. Both Wheeler and Wilson died in the late 19th century, resulting in the Company's sale to the SINGER Corporation. The company sold a total of nearly 2,000,000 of this sewing machine during its existence. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1908

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Titel: Broadside/Advertisement. Single sheet ...

Verlag: [Shrewsbury]: No date, No place [post 1863]. "D. Davis, Fancy Repository, Castle-street, Agent for Shrewsbury" printed to the tail of side.