GRAVES' PATENT IMPROVED SOFA BED

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Seller: BOOKPRESS LTD., Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A.BOOKPRESS LTD.

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(TRADE CATALOGUE) GRAVES & SON. GRAVES' PATENT IMPROVED SOFA BED. Boston: Samuel Graves & Son, (circa 1880). Printed advertising circular (10 x 7 1/2 inches). Rare item with only two copies recorded on OCLC -- Winterthur and Boston Public Library. A very pictorially pleasing circular illustrating ten fancy Victorian "sofa beds" (which look like fainting couches), seven on one side and three on the other. These apparently looked like couches until opened when they could double as a bed much like today's versions, or futons. Samuel Graves & Son was in business at least as early as 1878, when they were awarded a prize for a sofa bed which "appears to meet the wants of many in the community, and is claimed by the exhibitors as an improvement on an old device," at the 13th Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association Exhibition, and were still listed in Boston Almanac and Business Directory in 1891. folded twice, some wear, short split along several creases. 39114.

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Title
GRAVES' PATENT IMPROVED SOFA BED
Author
GRAVES & SON

BOOKPRESS LTD.

Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A.

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