S. Young & Sons (Misterton)

Traps · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 2:45 pm Post subject: S. Young & Sons (Misterton)

Anyone out there touch 'Ephemera' / Advertising?

There's this tiny, family run firm, S. Young and Son's of Misterton in Somerset. They started up in the very early 1900's and finally died out - yeppers, I'm afraid the active Son died of old age and that was it - around the mid seventies.

They made and retailed traps, nets, guns, pigeon and poultry fanciers stuff and lord knows what besides. I point this out because, as ye can see, they had potential appeal to a fairly wide cross section of people. Old Mr Young was also a handy Taxidermist, by all accounts. I have an owl by him.

As a Trap Collector my own interest should be pretty self evident. Thus I'm always looking out for Anything related to them. Their Catalogues especially. These being little 6x8", card covered booklets. In later years they produced only Price Lists. (Aprox. 5x3 1/2" booklets).

Having been an eager customer of theirs for the first half of my life I, of course, have the sentimental attatchment to what we've lost. Please keep ye eyes peeled around any stalls holding ephemera, perhaps relating to their sort of goods. I'll take just about anything with their name on it - and they did stamp or lable just about what ever they touched too Wink

Cheers, people!

Traps.
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