Rawlins, Thomas

Westgate, Grantham, Lincolnshire; joiner and cabinet maker (fl. 1790)

Sale of Rawlins's wood and stock in trade on his declining business advertised in Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury, 5 March 1790. Stock consisted of mahogany, walnut, elm and other wood; and ‘The Whole of his CABINET STOCK ready made; consisting of a handsome Mahogany Wardrobe; a Desk; Four Sets of Drawers; Five Dining Tables; Three Pembroke Tables; Four Tea Tables; Two Night Tables; Eight Bason Stands; a Number of Tea, Glass and Butlers’ Trays; a Wainscot Desk; Two Sets of Drawers; Two Tea Tables, with several Card and Dressing Tables; Twenty Pier and Swing Glasses; Kitchen Chairs; a Number of other Articles in the above Branches entirely new. The above Furniture is worth the Attention of the Public, being finished in a Workmanlike Manner out of fine oldseasoned wood.’

Source: DEFM