It is sometimes the odd ephemeral item that is of interest. The sheet below has a couple of items, the top one being an envelope from 1855 with a printed seal for the Somerset Archeology & Natural History Society which had been founded some six years earlier.
The second item is more interesting to my eyes - it is a receipt for a Philips 12" table tv and an aerial dated 30th May 1953. I assume it was to watch Queen Elizabeth's Coronation on 2nd June 1953. The cost (£65 for the TV and £10 for the aerial) are equivalent to what can be paid today (£2,250 and £340) for a large TV and aerial installation.
Below is an example of a receipted invoice sent as Printed Matter by Spiller & Webber, Taunton. What is interesting today is the commercial practice of customers being invoiced later, even when bought at the shop.
Here is an example of a commercial envelope advertising Johnston's Patent Corn Flour in 1900.
The sheet below is not of much interest unless one notices that the two receipts may well be from an ongoing family firm in Yeovil spanning 100 years.
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