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Wilson, Matheson & Co.

Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection

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Wilson, Matheson & Co.

"The Cricketing Belt" made by Wilson, Matheson & Co, clothing manufacturers, illustrated in the firm's wholesale and export trade list of c 1872.

The brace department on the first floor of the warehouse at 42 Glassford Street produced a variety of boys' and men's braces and belts in rubber, cotton and wool, at prices ranging from 1/3d (just over 6p) to 24 shillings (£1.20) per dozen.

Reference: Mitchell Library, GC 381.1410941443 WIL

Reproduced with the permission of Glasgow City Council, Libraries Information and Learning

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braces, clothing manufacturers, cotton, cricket, cricketing belts, rubber, trade catalogues, warehouses, Wilson, Matheson & Co, wool



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