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The Parisian Portable Alarum [Alarm],Sonnerie Tres-Bruyante, Indispensible for Travellers, the Clergy...and all whose professional pursuits require occasionally very early rising. Sold Wholesale and Retail, by William S. Adams, Furnishing Ironmonger, 57, Haymarket, London.
[London, c.1850s.]
Letterpress broadside advertisement label/handbill, for a wind-up mechanical alarm. Sheet 115 x 195mm, 4½ x 7¾".
The application for the "wind up alarm clock" including specific 'Directions for Use' are printed in a way that means this leaflet might have been inserted into the box or packaging with the product.
Provenance: from a scrap album compiled c.1840 - 1880 by Alfred Towgood of Riverside, a paper mill owner at St. Neots, Huntingdon. He was also a Lieutenant in the Duke of Manchester's Light Horse.
[Ref: 16457] £95.00
Letterpress broadside advertisement label/handbill, for a wind-up mechanical alarm. Sheet 115 x 195mm, 4½ x 7¾".
The application for the "wind up alarm clock" including specific 'Directions for Use' are printed in a way that means this leaflet might have been inserted into the box or packaging with the product.
Provenance: from a scrap album compiled c.1840 - 1880 by Alfred Towgood of Riverside, a paper mill owner at St. Neots, Huntingdon. He was also a Lieutenant in the Duke of Manchester's Light Horse.
[Ref: 16457] £95.00