Trade Signs and their Origin

Cecil A. Meadows

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Economics
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040616338
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Economics

Trade Signs and their Origin (1957) surveys the history and usage of traders' signs in Britain. The use of distinguishing signs, badges or emblems on shops is an interesting social and economic factor that spread in the Middle Ages, as traders identified and advertised their shops to an illiterate population.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• I Introduction
• II Barbers and Chemists: Apothecaries, Astrologers, Barbers; Barber-Surgeons, Baths and Shampooers, Chemists, Comb Makers, Corn Cutters, Fortune Tellers, Hairdressers, Hair Sellers, Dentists, Patent Medicine Sellers, Perfumers, Peruke Makers, Quacks, Sweet Pouidermen, Tireummen, Wig Makers
• III Food and Drink: Bakers, Butchers, Cheesemongers, Confectioners, Coffee Sellers, Cooks, Dairymen, Fishmongers, Fruiterers, Grocers, Mealmen, Millers, Poulterers, Salters, Teamen
• IV Tobacco and Intoxicants: Brewers, Distillers, Pipe Makers, Snuff Makers, Tobacconists, Yintners.
• V Clothing and Associated Trades: Bodice Makers, Clothworkers, Drapers, Dyers, Feltmakers, Furriers, Framework Knitters, Glovers, Girdlers, Hatters, Hosiers, Lacemen; Linen Drapers, Mercers, Merchant Taylors, Milliners, Needle Makers, Silkmen and Silk Throwers, Skinners, Slop Sellers, Tailors, Weavers, Woolcomhers, Woollen Drapers, Woolmen.
• VI Haberdashery and Miscellaneous Trades: Bird Fanciers, Button Makers, Chimney Sweeps, Coalmen, Coffin Plate Makers, Crutch and Bandage Makers, Fan Makers and Sellers, Gardeners, Grave Diggers, Haherdashers, Marine Store Dealers, Nightmen, Nurserymen, Pinmakers, Rat Killers, Rug Makers, Seedsmen, Stay Makers, Tent, Twine and Ropl Makers, Thread Makers, Toymen; Trunk Makers, Truss Makers, Umhrella Makers, Undertakers, Whalehone Dealers.
• VII Leather and Footwear: Boot and Shoe Makers, Bit and Stirrup Makers, Breeches Makers, Clogg Makers, Curriers, Harness Makers, Leather Sellers, Lorimers, Patten Makers, Saddlers, Spatterdash Makers, Spur Makers.
• VIII Metal, Glass and Oil Trades: Anvil Makers, Armourers and Braziers, Bell Founders, Bell Hangers, Bellows Makers, Blacksmiths, Brush Makers, Chain Makers, China Men and China Sellers, Cork Cutters, Cutlers, Glass Makers and Sellers, Ironfounders, Ironmongers, Italian Merchants, Lime Burners, Mangle Makers, Millwrights, Oil and Colourmen, Pewterers, Plum hers, Razor Makerr, Smiths, Soap Makers, Sword Cutlers, Tinplate Workers, Tallow Chandlers, Tool Makers and Dealers, Wireworkers.
• IX Building and Furniture: Bricklayers, Cabinet Makers, Carpenters, Coachmakers, Coopers, Feathermen, Glaziers, Masons, Measure Makers, Paolors, Sculptors, Shipwrights, Turners, Upholsterers, Woodmongers.
• X Artists and Opticians, and Miscellaneous Trades: Artists, Bowyers, Clock and Watch Makers, Carvers and Gilders, Engravers, Fishing Tackle Dealers, Fletchers, Gold Beaters, Gunsmiths, Instrument Makers, Marriage Mongers, Marriage Insurance Offices, Map and Chart Makers and Sellers, Musicians, Musical Instrument Makers, Music Sellers, Opticians, Painters and Paper Stainers, Playing Card Makers, Pencil Makers, Scale Makers, Scriveners and Writing Masters, Taxidermists.
• XI Booksellers and Publishers: Booksellers, Printsellers, Puhlishers, Stationers, Circulating Libraries.
• XII Bankers and Goldsmiths: Bankers, Goldsmiths, Jewellers, Pawnbrakers, Silversmiths.
• XIII Insurance and Building Societies
• XIV Modern Signs
• Bibliography
• Index