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Creator:
Wolstenholme, Joseph (Metalworker), creator.
Title(s):

J. Wolstenholme's best Britannia metal.

Additional Title(s):

Best Britannia metal

Published/Created:
[Sheffield] : J. Wolstenholme, [between 1830 and 1840]
Physical Description:
1 trade card : engraving ; 80 x 80 mm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Eph Hg 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11623125
Notes:
Trade card printed on yellow paper with an engraving of Wostenholme's factory in Sheffield. At bottom is noted: "4 BM [i.e. Britannia Metal] Tea Pot, no. 910."
Joseph Wolstenholme, manufacturer of Britannia metal, is listed in the Sheffield directory and guide of 1828 (page 105.) The collections of Museums Sheffield includes a "Bachelor teapot" in Britannia metal, manufactured by Joseph Wolstenholme, dated to between 1830 and 1840.
Subject Terms:
Advertising -- England -- Sheffield.
Architecture -- England -- Sheffield.
House furnishings -- Great Britain.
Metal products -- Great Britain.
Pewter.
Sheffield plate.
Teapots -- Great Britain.
Wolstenholme, Joseph (Metalworker)
Form/Genre:
Trade cards (advertising)
Advertisements.
Engravings -- 1830-1840.
Ephemera.
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