[Receipt] Waller & Beggs, successors to Champion Undertaker

Drawn & Engraved by Waller, Suffolk St.
[graphic] : Furniture van proprietor & coal merchant, 49 & 50 Denzille St. Coal store 43 Sandwich St. Merrion Square, Dublin. Pakenham Mahon Esq. Harcourt 13 / To Waller & Beggs Dr / Feb 18..[...] Carriage of food...Carriage...[Total] £ " 11 " 0 [11 shillings] Rec'd [received] 21/2/57 [21 February 1857] M. Waller /
Bibliographic Details
Main Creator: Waller & Beggs (Firm)
Contributors: Waller, James, engraver.
Summary:Receipt issued in 1857 by Waller & Beggs to a member of the Pakenham Mahon family, then resident in Harcourt Street, Dublin for services to the value of 11 shillings. Note the words "Waller & Beggs, successors to" are stamped onto the sheet in red coloured ink, over an existing Champion Undertaker billhead, featuring an engraving [by James Waller, Suffolk St., Dublin] of the premises located on 49-50 Denzille Street, Dublin. As the billhead was originally for Champion Undetakers, the engraving depicts a Champions Safety Furniture Van at left and a hearse being drawn by six horses at right. The exterior of the building on the right in the scene has painted on it: "Champion Furniture Yard and Coal Store 49". [See NLI call number EPH C888, for an invoice from 1908 for funeral costs owed to Alfred G. Waller undertakers, located at 48, 49 & 50 Denzille St. and 42 & 43 Sandwith St. Merrion Square Dublin, issued to the representatives of a late Captain Fitzgerald].
Format: Book
Language:English
Published / Created: Dublin : [s.n.], 1857
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Notes:This item is held in the Department of Ephemera.

Inscribed in verso on sheet in iron gall ink in manuscript hand is: "Champion / for brougham & / cart for baggage / Pd [paid] JJs [?] / 14th March /1857" - this is written over the words [handwritten in another hand]: "Pakenham Mahon Esq / H[...]".

Physical description: 1 sheet : ill., 26 x 20 cm..

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EPH B1245
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Ephemera
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