AlGl'ST, 1012. 



kxo\vli:dge. 



' at ^Azimuth Compali. near,f India-Hqufe. 



Trade Caul 



The Trade Card ol \\^m\ c,,,^,„, 

 Mathematical Instrument Maker, at tho 

 sign of the Azimuth Compass, near the 

 India Office in Leaden-Hall Street. IViiO 



in which [ohii 

 DoUoiid lirst 

 "kept shop," 

 is g i \' c n in 

 F i g u r e i J 8 , 

 carried on busi- 

 ness at the sign 

 of the Quadrant, 

 without 'the Old 

 Bailey. He must 

 have been a con- 

 temporary :nul 

 neighbour of 

 Nathaniel Hill, 

 and so also were 

 IJenjamin Cole 

 and Son. the 

 orrcr\-inakers at 

 the "(;iobe. in 



r 



Na\al historians 

 cannot fail to be 

 interested in the 

 1745 trade card 

 of Robert Rust 

 (see Figure 342), 

 nautical instru- 

 ment-maker at 

 the corner of St. 

 Catherine's 

 Stairs, near tlu' 

 Tower of I^on- 

 d on. One o f 

 Rust's formidable 

 rivals must have 

 lieen Fisher 



Combes (see 

 Figure j4j), who 

 carried on busi- 



To ril/.qjl.WSOi} S\rgh)n<; 



Fleet Street, — a vicinit}' then 

 evidentlv largel\- patronised by 

 instrument-makers of all kinds. 

 John Bennett, who enjoyed the 

 countenance and support of the 

 Dukes of Gloucester and Cumber- 

 land, apparently adopted the same 

 sign as Cole (see Figure 339), but 

 considerably further westwards, 

 VIZ., in Crown Court, St. Ann's, 

 Soho. John Bennett's card, shew- 

 ing the details of early ther- 

 mometers and weather-glasses 

 (see Figure 340) is surmounted 

 b\' the i"o\al arms, and bears a 





Figure 348. 



Hill and Trade Card of Messrs. Holmes and 

 Laurie. Makers of Surgical Appliances 

 to the Royal Navy, at the sign of the 

 CJolden Key, in Bartholomew Close, ' ^ 

 West Smithfield, 1774. 



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 •j:jictti/> STEKL crBJCLT TRrSSf:s 

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 fyffuft/ffiir /it'in liny Uiii.fc ir/iatitevir^ • 

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l''i(;rKE .i47. 



Trade Card of James Lane, Maker of 



Surgical Appliances, CJpposite Salisbury 



Court in Fleet Street, 1734. 



ness in the same kind of scientitic 

 instruments at the sign of the 

 Mariner and Globe in Broad 

 Street, near the Angel and Crown 

 Tavern, behind the Royal Ex- 

 change. It is somewhat difficult 

 nowada\s to understand the 

 necessity of describing Broad 

 Street as being in the vicinity of 

 the Angel and Crown, or any 

 other inn. The compass-card 

 (1755) of William Watson (see 

 .544), of Church Lane 

 Hull, needs no explana- 

 It shews that the making 



Bilingual Trade Card of John Chasson, a 

 Surgical Instrument Maker, at the sign of 

 theC and Cross in Newgate Street, cir. 1770. 



s t ro n g resem- 

 blance to that 

 issued b \- his 

 neighbour. James 

 S i m o n s (see 

 I'igure 341), of 

 the Sir Isaac 

 Newton's Head 

 at the corner of 

 the now vanished 

 M a r y 1 e b o n e 

 Street, opposite 

 Glass House 

 Street. In 

 Simons' we have 

 a sun-dial, and a 

 microscope, be- 

 sides a globe, tele- 

 scope and orrery. 

 Its date is 17S5. 



of nautical 

 and t) t h e r 

 s c i e n t i fi c 

 instruments 

 was not a 

 monopoly ot 

 the Metro- 

 polis. Henr\ 

 G r e g o r \ 

 (1760) was 

 e v i d e n 1 1 \ 

 another 

 maker o t 

 nautical ac- 

 cessories (Set 

 Figure 34()i 

 who p r o ri - 

 pered in the 

 very heart of 

 London city. 



Fn.uKt. J50. 



Bilingual Trade Card of Paston Cartwright, 

 Surgical Instrument Maker, of Lombard Street, 



1770. 



