Cole, Charles, 270 High St, Exeter, Devon, carver and gilder (1816–40). The business was also styled Cole & Co. from 1816–20, and from 1830 was in partnership with John Gendall. On 3 August 1819 they announced their appointment as agents for the sale of Crease & Co.'s washable paper hangings. Charles Cole appears to have had a house in Eastgate, Exeter, and this address is given in connection with the baptism of his two sons, James Henry on 26 April 1823 and James Jarvis on 29 April 1825. A curtain rod at Moditonham House, Cornwall has been noted with a label of this maker stating: ‘LOOKING GLASS, MIRRORS, MOULDINGS, etc. executed in the neatest manner’. The partnership with Gendall was unsuccessful and the bankruptcy of the partners was announced in August 1832. [D; PR (bapt.); election squibs, 1816; Western Luminary, 3 August 1819, 28 September 1819; Liverpool Mercury, 17 August 1832]