Offering “All Sorts of Instruments for Sea and Land”
John Browne Compass Maker and Ship Chandler
SKU: 17848
Browse Ephemera London Sale 2026
Tags: 140126, instruments, navigational, scientific, Trade card
Type: Rare Prints
BROWNE, John
London,
No. 5 Stoney Lane, near Pickle Herring Stairs, Southwark
[before 1750].
Engraved trade card.
120 by 125mm. (4.75 by 5 inches).
17848
To scale:
notes:
notes:
An early trade card for John Browne, who subsequently moved to "near Wapping Old Stairs" where he sold "all Sorts of Instruments for Sea or Land, As Compasses, Glasses, Lathorns, & Colours. Likewise Books for Navigation & Sea Charts, Also Guns, Gunpowder, Shot, and all Sorts of Ship Chandlery and Turnery Wares".
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An early trade card for John Browne, who subsequently moved to "near Wapping Old Stairs" where he sold "all Sorts of Instruments for Sea or Land, As Compasses, Glasses, Lathorns, & Colours. Likewise Books for Navigation & Sea Charts, Also Guns, Gunpowder, Shot, and all Sorts of Ship Chandlery and Turnery Wares".
bibliography:
bibliography:
See BM Heal for a later, c1750, trade card for Browne
provenance:
provenance:
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