Spring Circular Comprising garden tools and fittings, painting brushes...
London: printed by the Sergeant Brothers for Crowden & Keeves, 1935. Quarto, original printed wrappers; 80 pp., illustrated throughout. Wrappers loose, internally in very good order. Comprehensive catalogue of garden and domestic wares from Crowden & Keeves of Calvert avenue London.
The catalogue is a good source book for the history of gardening. It includes a large range of gardening tools, such as spades, shovels and pitchforks, rakes, trowels, lawn mowers, shears, scythes, bill hooks, shears, secateurs, axes, mattocks, flower baskets, cold frames, sprinklers, barrows, garden furniture, sprayers, misters, insecticides, and much more. Some other specialised products include lawn mowers, flower holders for graves (whole page, illustrated), poultry rearing supplies, and sundries.
The catalogue amply caters for builders and renovators - with various saws, hack saws, vices, hammers, planes, spokeshaves, chisels and pliers; paint brushes and blow torches; locks, latches and door fittings; paints, glue, enamel and solvents.
Approximately half the listings are domestic, including vacuum cleaners, brooms, brushes and feather dusters; enamelware (several pages); refrigerators, meat safes and cold boxes; as well as equipment for storing and preserving fresh fruit and produce. Item #4315
Price (AUD): $200.00