Auction: Clocks, Watches & Scientific Instruments - 2502Location: MarlboroughDate / Time: May 01, 2010 10:00AM
Description:
Brass Founder's Furniture Hardware Trade Catalogue, no date or origin, probably London, 1770-1780, 82 engraved plates, with prices added in ms. in later binding of marbled paper-covered boards with calf spine and corners, labeled "Furniture fittings pattern book" and erroneously dated 1817 on spine.
Estimate $800-1,200
Later binding, Ted Crom name and address inside front cover in pen, Crom penciled notations on front endpapers, minor non-Crom penciled notations inside back cover.