Extract from the Gazette, 1742
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette, May 20, 1742.

[Advertisement] Just imported from London, And to be Sold by B. Franklin, at the Post-Office, near the Market in Philadelphia. All Sorts of fine Paper, Parchment, Ink-powder, Sealing Wax. Wafers, fountain Pens, Pencils, Brass Ink horns, Ink-bottles neatly set in Brass, Ink and sand Glasses with Brass Heads, Pounce and Pounce Boxes, curious large Ivory Books, and common ditto, large and small Slates, Gunter’s Scales, Dividers, Protractors. Pocket Compasses both large and small, fine Pewter Stands proper for Offices and Counting-houses, fine Mezzotinto and grav’d Pictures of Mr. Whitefield.

Where may be had great Variety of Bibles, Testaments, Psalters, Spelling Books, Primers, Hornbooks, and other sorts of Stationary Ware.

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