Victorian Ephemera: Receipts, Letterheads & Philatelic Material
ephemera - Receipts & Letterheads For Victorian Companies: mostly 1950s array (few earlier), sorted by business types, some including 1917 illustrated for J.B. Edwards (Bendigo) Watchmaker, Jeweller & Optician; other businesses represented include Builders & Glass Merchants, Chemists/Pharmacists, Garages & Motoring, General Merchants & Retailers, Quarrying companies, etc; also noted 1950 Geelong Waterworks and Sewerage Trust 'Plan of Drainage' for property in South Barwon, 1950 Postmaster-General's Dept letterheads (2) in regard to installations of phone services, plus a bundle of philatelic material & picture postcards; some of the documents have Victorian Stamp Duty adhesives attached. (qty)
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- Victorian Period - The Victorian period of furniture and decorative arts design covers the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901. There was not one dominant style of furniture in the Victorian period. Designers used and modified many historical styles such as Gothic, Tudor, Elizabethan, English Rococo, Neoclassical and others, although use of some styles, such as English Rococo and Gothic tended to dominate the furniture manufacture of the period.
The Victorian period was preceded by the Regency and William IV periods, and followed by the Edwardian period, named for Edward VII (1841 – 1910) who was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India for the brief period from 1901 until his death in 1910. - Ephemera - Ephemera is written or printed matter not meant to be retained or preserved, such as Christmas cards, cigarette and other trade cards, postcards, posters and Valentines.
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