Hardware-Shop. Imported from Birmingham & Sheffield. 1750.

 

 

 John Brown

Merchant.

"Hardware-Shop

Belfast.

JUST Imported from BIRMINGHAM & SHEFFIELD, by JOHN BROWN, next Door to the Peacock in Broadstreet, Belfast, a handsome Collection of Hardware, in the Ironmonger and Toy way, such as Handsaws, Angers, Chizels, Gouges, Plane Irons, Hatchets, and Gimlets, Bellows, and Curtain Rings, Locks and Hinges of various kinds, Brasses for Drawers, Shoemakers Hammers and Pinchers, Punches for Shoemakers and Saddlers,Coopers, Jointer Irons, Nippers and Hammers of various sorts. Trowels, Billhooks, and Hay Knives, Sheep Sheers for Gardeners, Skinners and Glovers- TOYS, viz, Scizars, Knives, Buckles and Sleeve Buttons, a large assortment of various kinds of buttons cloaths, viz, Jett, Mettal, and Philosophers Stone; Tobacco and Snuff Boxes of the newest Fashions; Guns and Pistols; Locks and Vices, Screws, and Worms for Guns; with a neat assortment of Perspective  Glasses, large, Middling and finall, from London;with Silk Purses. Nutmeg-graters of Ebony and Ivory, Toasting Forks, Powder-tiyers. Cock-heels, Ouncels, Lancers, Phlemes, Ivory Combs; with Pinchbeck and gilt Thimbles, Key Chains, Straps and Silk Strings for Watches; Superfine Pincushions and Dressing boxes for Ladies, with a handsome assortment of muslins, Cambricks, Modes, Fans, Necklaces and Velvets; with English, Dutch and Irish Needles, Inkpots of Brass, Ivory and Leather, Coffee mills, Saddle-nails, Silver'd and plain, with Sett and Lettin; Girth and Surcing's Buckles; Brushes and Curry combs for Horses, Bridles, Bridle bitts, and Stirrop Irons of various kinds, Comb brushes, Buckle and Tooth Brushes; Key rings, and Swivels and Travelling-hasps; Secret Locks for Portmanteaus, Bottle boards, with fine Japan'd Waiters and Servers for Gentleman's Tables; German Hones and fine Straps for Razors; Canes and Staves of a neat kind; Worster Stocking and Muffatees of various colours, Brass, White Mettal and Steel Spurs, and Spur Roles, Several kinds of Files,Rasps, and Rubbers: All which being laid in from the best and cheapest Markets, he proposes to Sell on the lowest Terms with good allowance to Country Shopkeepers and Chapman.

He likewise continues to sell Betton's true and genuine British Oil, Daffy's Elixlr, Staughton's Drops, the Balsamick Tincture for the Gravel, the infallible remedy for the Scurvy, and the best Hungary Water, with Panacella's famous Stiptick for the tooth ache."

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The Belfast Newsletter April 27th 1750

The spellings and products are a curious selection, in certain instances the products unknown but the mention of the importation of Guns and Pistols including accoutrements just proves how much influence the merchants enjoyed in the mid eighteenth century within Belfast.

Dave Stroud. ramrodantiques.co.uk