The Victorian ironmonger
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The Victorian ironmonger
(Shire album, 32)(The Shire book)
Shire Publications, 2000, c2003
3rd ed
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  Iwate
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  Yamagata
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  Toyama
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  Fukui
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
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Note
Description based on: Reprinted 2003
"First published 1978"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Victorian ironmonger's shop was the nineteenth-century equivalent of the modern department store and a vast range of goods could be bought there. If the Victorian housewife needed knife-cleaning powder, candles, a saucepan or wallpaper, she would visit the ironmonger. Other tradesmen relied on the ironmonger for their tools and materials: cheese knives for the grocer, coffin handles for the undertaker, tools for the carpenter and gardener, even builders' supplies. Installing kitchen ranges, gas-fitting and bell-fitting were also within the ironmonger's repertory. This book describes the Victorian ironmonger's varied stock and also explains the purchase of goods, keeping accounts, giving credit and the prompt delivery service.
Table of Contents
Introduction Origins of the name and trade Trade signs The growth and decline of the furnishing ironmonger Supplies and inventions Purchasing methods Trading and delivery Price codes and stock marking The office Manufacturing The stocks Bygones Places to visit
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