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Jackman, Paul (1740)

Jackman, Paul

over against Magdalen College, Oxford, Oxfordshire, cabinet maker (fl. c.1740)

His trade card indicates that he made and sold ‘all sorts of Cabinet Work, as Desks, Buroes, Scrutores, Book Cases, Chests of Drawers, Corner Cupboards, Tea Boards, Tables & Chests, Dressing & Dining Tables, Chairs Matted, or Leather & Glasses in new fashioned Frames from London’. Other items mentioned were ‘Bellows, Cloaths & Hearth Brushes’ and ‘Hard Wares’ [Landauer Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY].

Source: DEFM

The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.