Advertisement from a Baltimore business directory dated 1850 for Joseph K. Stapleton, manufacturer of brushes, bellows, fishing rods and tackle. The brush on the left is a fireplace brush.
Page from the book "The American Fireplace" showing newspaper advertisement of Robert Wellford in which he mentions patterns for stoves. He is most famous for the mounts he made for mantles.
Muskets stocked, in the best and neatest manner, by Edward Pole, in Market street, near the Court-House, Philadelphia; where may be had the best kind of wires and brushes for firelocks, priming flasks and oil bottles to bit in the cartouch boxes; musket and pistol balls; musket and pistol cartridges of all sizes, and cartridge formers. Also cartridges made up, on moderate terms by the hundred or larger quantity.
N.B. A very neat cutteau de chase, and a small sword, to be sold at the above place.
Penna. Evening Post, No. 135 (Phila.) Dec 2, 1775.
