No. 029
Title
No. 029
Page Number
Address
5 New Street, Covent Garden
Geographic Details
n/a
Date(s)
1783
Medium
Printer
Name of Business / Business Owner
Services
Goods
Annotations / Handwritten Text
n/a
Printed Text
New Warehouse for fine Lamp-Oils, No. 5, New-Street, Covent-Garden, London. / GEORGE DOWNING, LAMP-OIL MERCHANT, respectfully acquaints the Nobility, Gentry, and Public in general, that at his Warehouse they may always be supplied with Lamp-Oils of the purest Quality, Wholesale and Retail, at reduced Prices.—An elegant Assortment of Bed-Chamber and other Lamps, of the latest Invention.—A Night Lamp for Cabins, particularly recommended to Gentlemen of the Navy.—Phosphorus Matches.— Lamp Tapers, and the finest Turkey Cotton. / To remedy the universal Complaint not only of the high Price, but the extreme bad Quality of Lamp-Oils; Mr. DOWNING open'd the above Warehouse on the 13th of September, 1783, and for the Public good reduced the price of Spermaceti Oil from 7s. to 4s. 6d. per Gallon; refined Whale Oil from 5s. to 3s. 6d. per Gallon; and that every consumer may partake of the advantage, no advance whatever is made on the Retail customer, who buys only a pint of Oil. / N.B. The Oil sent to any part of London free of Expence.
Collection
Citation
“No. 029,” English Trade Cards: A Digital Companion, accessed October 22, 2026, https://englishtradecards.org/items/show/27.