Billhead illustrated with two bust-length white male figures, one in three-quarter profile and one in profile. Three-quarter profile view shows man with full head of hair. Profile views shows a bald man with his head diagramed to key "Manner of Taking Measure of a Wig by Any Person." He wears a jacket with epaulette., Includes several lines of advertising text, including Mounier & Lallou's dissatisfaction policy of a new wig free of additional expense with "transportation at the cost of the purchasers. Price $10"; "manner of taking measure for a wig by any person"; and a list of goods, relating to their profession, found in their store such as curls, puffs, wigs, scalps, braids, frisette, gentlemen's "WHISKERS," and imported artificial flowers., Completed as bill on recto to Mr. [Swerangen?] on Feb. 20, 1834 for $69.36 (after less 3 percent) worth of items, including curls Grecian, puffs, frieze, frisettes, and "1/2 d[ozen] negro braid.", Inscribed on verso: J.P. Mounier & Lallou. Bill Feby. 20th, 1834. $69.36 copied., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021.
Date
[ca. 1830]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Freedman Collection - Certificates, etc. [P.2013.87.72]
