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Mme. Baclet née Gaugain, No. 24332, Brocanteur
Mme. Baclet was a brocantuer, or a dealer in second-hand goods. Many street and pushcart vendors were women who sold a range of goods. This badge was her license to sell legally on Paris streets. The police enforced the licenses. Vendors without a badge were limited to being “basketwoman” who might quickly slip away when the police drew near.Tags Trades -
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Mrs. Phillips […] Machine Warehouse […]: She Likewise has Great Choice of Skins and Bladders
Mrs. Phillips was in the business of manufacturing condoms, “implements of safety,” to secure the health of her customers. In mid-eighteenth century she promoted her shop against the incursion of a competitor, one Mrs. Perkins. Mrs. Phillips had been manufacturing condoms for thirty-five years, making them from the finest skins and bladders. She filled orders from France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and “other foreign places,” shipping condoms abroad. She defied anyone “to equal her goods in England or any other country whatsoever.” Mrs. Phillips is restrained and does not use the word condom in her advertising. She employed street hawkers to advertise her wares and bring customers to her shop off the Strand, on Half Moon Street, in London.
“To guard yourself from shame or fear
Votaries to Venus, hasten here
None in our wares er’er found a flaw
Self-preservation’s Natures law.”Tags Trades -
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Bo[ugh]t of Sarah Bellis, Tallow-Chandler
According to the records of the tallow chandler’s company, from the fourteenth century on there are numerous instances of women who were indentured to tallow makers. They served apprenticeships along side men, as well as owning shops making candles and soap. It was said that the employment differed little than that of a milliner’s shop apprentice.Tags Trades -
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Elizabeth Hare: Musical Instrument Maker […]
The Hare family’s music shop was an important center for instrument making in London. Elizabeth married Joseph Hare, making instruments alongside her husband and their apprentices. The shop also sold cheaply printed music. When Joseph died in 1733, she took over the business. This trade card, with a receipt for “a parcel of violin strings” on the reverse, lists the address for that shop. In 1748, a great fire destroyed the block, and Elizabeth relocated the business to Cheapside.Tags Trades -
[Newspaper advertisement for bookseller Margery Yeo]
Margery Yeo is one of a number of women publishers and booksellers working in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She was the widow of Charles Yeo, a bookseller in Exeter who died around 1709. A widow who inherited a publishing or bookselling business and who chose not to remarry could herself hold a favorable status in trade guilds. In London, for example, a widow would have the right to take on apprentices and hold stock in the Stationers’ Company. Margery was active as a bookseller and binder from 1709 to 1728. For the first few years after her husband’s death she traded with her son as Margery and Philip Yeo.
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