A trade card issued by Edward Orme announcing a change of address for his printselling, framing and stationery business from Conduit Stree to New Bond Street. The image show a cherub emerging from a break in a thick bank of clouds, as he holds a caducesus. On the right a bearded man in a cap and in a fur trimmed cloak reaches toward the cherub; the man has a snake at his feet. High in the center a bat flies toward the scene
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Edward Orme, removed from Conduit Street to 59 New Bond Street ...
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Title from text in center of image., Date of publication from dealer's description., Text below image: Where are sold all his new invented transparent prints and every other publication. Merchants & dealers supplied on the most liberal terms. Pictures, prints & drawings framed. Drawing books, fancy prints & drawing materials., "Printseller to the King.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark on all but lower edge., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Title continues: Makes & sells all sorts of jewellers work at the most reasonable rates. Buys, sells, or appraises all sorts of household furniture, wearing apparel, second-hand plate watches, & c. N.B. Most money for old gold and silver lace, burnt or unburnt., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 62 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 135 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Title continues: Makes & sells all sorts of fans, necklaces, flowers, gawse [sic] handkerchiefs, hair-caps, ribbons, patches, stomachers, wiers, fustian-caps, rosettes, bags, black-lace, gloves, muffatees, cloaks, capuchins, hoods, lavender & hungary water, n. th. all forts of Haberdashery wares., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 56 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Engraving depicts European Americans in wagon train on hilly trail. Covered wagons are drawn by oxen, while loose cattle and a dog wander between them. One couple is walking past rocks at left, a mounted man in foreground leads the way while another man holding long whip stands alongside front wagon. In background, snowy mountain peaks
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BEIN BrSide4o Zc10 869ha: On sheet 22.3 x 29.4 cm. Hand colored., Title from caption below image., and Printed below image: Entered according to act of Congress, A.D. 1869, by D. Appleton & Co. in the clerk's office of the district court for the southern district of N.Y.
BEIN ENG38 : From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Latin/Italian suit system, modified (swords, wands, pentacles, cups), Type: Cartomancy., Composition of deck: 78 [A, K, Q, C, J, 10-2, trumps I-XXI, Fool]., CourtCards: Cavaliers are called knights; jacks are labelled pages., Pipcards and Jokers: Pip cards numbered X-II., Trumps: Single figure trumps; II: THE HIGH PRIESTESS; V: THE HIEROPHANT., The cards appeared originally with Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1910. All cards bear the designer's monogram. Suits of batons and money are labelled wands and pentacles., and Label indicates that the pack was printed in Great Britian and distributed by the Church of Light, Los Angeles.
BEIN ITA103: Imperfect: 16, K, Q, CS; K, C, JB; KD; QC; trumps Bagatto, Pope, Temperance, Star, Moon, Sun, World, Fool only. From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title devised by cataloger., Latin/Italo-Portuguese suit system., Type: Original design., and Composition of deck unknown.