TOP SWAGE!

[Jonathan Shaw & Co.]: Jonathan Shaw & Co., Gibraltar Steel Works, and Ecclesfield Forge, Sheffield: Best warranted solid cast steel hammers. Pawson & Brailsford lith., Sheffield [c.1890].

Well-preserved advertising broadside, illustrating 48 various hammer and pick heads, plus 3 chisels and a long chipping spike. Grouped as "boiler makers' hammers", "smiths' tools", and "engineers' hammers", all of the items are numbered (probably as per listing in catalogue), and some also have their own individual label (miners' mash, colliers' wedge, top swage etc.) A fine ephemeral illustration of the output in working tools, of the Sheffield steel industry.

Details

Folio (52.6 cms. x 33.4 cms.), lithographed broadside, as described above. 52.5 x 33.5 cms. (47.3 x 28.1 cms. within printed area). Small areas of loss at very top margin (blank) - perhaps from when the broadside was hung? - otherwise a practically spotless copy, neat fold lines, printed on high quality glazed tissue-like paper.

Not in OCLC (2014).