Description of items for sale from Beitler’s Store, 1894

Date: 1894

Description of items for sale from Beitler’s Store, 1894

All that stock of store goods at Howellville, Chester County, State of Pa. Consisting of dry goods – groceries – boots & shoes – drugs – glass and Queens ware – hardware – wood and willow ware – tobacco and segars – and everything in and about the stone house liable to levy or seizure – also 2 horses – 1farm wagon – 1 cart – 1 stone wagon – phaeton.

Household goods consisting of Palor suit: 1 pianno – 1 organ – 2 rockers – 1 store carpet on the floor; Sitting room – 1 heater stove 1 lounge – 2 rockers – 6 chairs – 1 sewing machine – 1 centre table – carpet on the floor; Dinning room – 1 talbe – 1 side board – 6 chairs – 1 stove – matting on the floor, Kitchen – 1 range – 2 tables – 1 portable boiler – potts, kettles and dishes; Hall – 1 hat rack – carpet on the floor; Back hall – 1 table & carpet on the floor; Room No. 1 – suit of walnut furniture – 1 lounge – 1 rocker – 4 chairs – 1 bureau – carpet on the floor; Room No. 2 – walnut suit – 1 rocker – 1 wardrobe – 4 chairs – 1 bureau – carpet on the floor; Room no. 3 – walnut suit – marble top table – 1 stove – carpet on the floor; Room No. 4 – walnut suit – 1 rocker – 2 chairs – carpet on the floor.

QUEENSWARE, OR CREAMWARE, is a creamy white pottery which was made in the last half of the I8th and the early I9th century. It was a utilitarian ware made in complete dinner sets.

References

Hugh Steen, Serial Entrepreneur of Tredyffrin by Mike Bertram, TEHS Quarterly, vol. 50, #1 (March 2013)