[Watchmaker; handbill] Trade Advertisement

Handbill, 36 x 15cm, poor condition with some amateur (sellotape) repairs on verso, chipping, closed tears, and some missing text. See part-image. Headed by image of watch paper ('I. CRANE / BROMSGROVE', showing a crane and a carriage lamp, within a circular border reading 'To make the Watch go faster turn the Regulator to the right & Slower the Contrary'. ). The text starts with verse in small print, followed by a pyramid of words, itself followed by three columns of verse advertising the goods available apart from watches and clocks (cricket bats, razors, you name it). Note: Copy in John Johnson Collection: "Crane's Trade Advertisement This advertisement for the Bromsgrove watchmaker Isaac Crane links up not only with the tradesmens' verses illustrated by Lambert's address (212), but also with the Heron-Allen Collection of Watch Papers ..." [Catalogue of Exhibition, John Johnson Collection (1970).