Description

[002616] [Membership Ticket]. Paisley Artizans’ Institution. No Place: No Publisher, 1847. First Edition. 64mo (Oblong). Unbound. Ticket. Good. Single sided engraved ticket, approximately 90mm x 65mm in size.

Browned, some light abrasions to surface with slight loss of text (?Sec.) to right hand side, reverse lightly stained with ink and soiled from handling.

The membership card of Robert ???, No. 136, and signed beneath by the Secretary D.[aniel] Campbell for the years 1847-8. An early card, the Institute only opening on the 16th of November 1847, at 109 High Street, apparently with a library, news-room, rooms for classes and lectures and a suite of baths, the terms being a shilling for entry and eight shillings a year, and it was shut on the Sabbath. Daniel Campbell is listed as one of the directors, with the keeper being Daniel M’Kinley (Fowler’s Paisley Commercial Directory 1848-9)