Box lid
Price of Bristol
Category
Historic Services / Lighting
Date
Unknown
Materials
cardboard
Place of origin
Battersea
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 742405.1.2
Summary
Rectangular cardboard box with lid of 'Prices Battersea Sperm Candles', blue with white and red label. Contains candles BLG/MISC/555 (2-5), wrapped in BLG/MISC/555.6. The lid is a slip on style with four blue sides and a white inner. The top has a white stick on label with a black square stylised border, a floral design in the right corners and a mast ship motif in an oval in the bottom left corner. In two stylised scroll panels 'PRICE'S Battersea Sperm CANDLES SELF-FITTING'. In a red band at the bottom 'PRICE'S PATENT CANDLE COMPANY LIMITED LONDON, LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, GLASGOW'.
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to The National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.
Makers and roles
Price of Bristol, manufacturer