Trade card for Goodwill & Lawson, engravers, printers and stationers
Anonymous, British, 19th century British
Not on view
This object is housed in an album of British trade cards from the collections of Bella C. Landauer, Ambrose Heal, and others. The term “trade card” is of nineteenth-century origin and refers to a card that advertises the services of an individual or business. Eighteenth-century trade cards were often printed on thin sheets of paper and referred to as “tradesmen’s cards,” “tradesmen’s bills,” or “shopkeeper’s bills.” During the Victorian era, trade cards were often reinforced on pasteboard and closely resemble business cards today.
Goodwill & Lawson is also listed in Pigot and Co.'s 1837 National Commerical Directory of the Whole of Scotland and the Isle of Man as being located at 22 Silver Street, Hull.
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