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1964.2.14

A pink paper of straight pins in four rows, given as change. [LKG 17/05/2010]

1964.2.14

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Collection type
Object
Description
A pink paper of straight pins in four rows, given as change. [LKG 17/05/2010]
Cultural groups
English
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1963
Date collected
By 1963
Acquisition information
Bequeathed: 1964
Materials and processes
Material Paper Plant, Material Metal, Material Ink, Process Printed, Process Forged (Metal), Process Perforated
Dimensions
Length 252 mm, Width 125 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1964.2.14
Research and responses

Cape and Company, drapers: http://www.headington.org.uk/oxon/mayors/1836_1962/lewis_edmund_1920.htm: in Oxford, by 1877 Faithful Cape had founded Cape's Drapery Store at 26 St Ebbe's Street. He expanded into No. 29 in the 1880s, and in 1887 rebuilt Nos. 30 and 31 to match No. 29. Cape retired in 1888, selling the business to Daniel Bailey of Bristol, who expanded it again to 47 Church Street. In 1893 Bailey in turn sold out to Edmund's father Henry [Lewis] for £10,865 5s., which included stock and fixtures and furniture. Thus in 1893, when Edmund was 19, his family moved to Oxford to run Cape's. The family can be found in the 1901 census living at 125 Woodstock Road. Edmund's father (53) is described as a draper; Edmund himself at the age of 29 is a draper's assistant, and his sister Frances (23) is a draper's cashier. The only other sibling still at home is Ernest (14). Also in the house are the sister-in-law of Edmund's father, Miss Elizabeth Farrar (66), a visitor called William Aldis who was a Professor of Mathematics, and one servant. Edmund's father further expanded Cape's to include 28 St Ebbe's Street in 1899 and No. 32 in 1900. In 1900 he also bought 8 St Ebbe's Street on the other side of the road for a wool shop, and opened his first branch at 86–90 Cowley Road. In 1904 he bought the lease of 71 and 72 Walton Street for another branch. By 1905 he had also bought 11 and 12 St Ebbe's Street for Cape's menswear and shoe departments, and then Nos. 7 and 8 for a furnishing department. [AP 28/09/2006]

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