1918 letter from Pratt & Lambert Varnish Makers, Bridgeburg Ontario

$8.50 CAD

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Letter dated October 22nd 1918 to Messrs. Colwill Booth & Co, Guelph Ontario, on paper with Pratt and Lambert letterhead.

In concentrated, tabloid form the enclosed four-page leaflet --- just the right filing size --- gives you complete and detailed specifications for every conceivable use of varnishes, stains and enamels, inside and outside, on wood, metal, plaster, concrete and brick…
 
Manager Architectural Service Department

 

Folded into four.

28 x 21,50 cm

 

COLWILL, William Frye (1871-1928), active in Guelph, Ontario from 1900 to c. 1914, and the author of one of the most impressive Carnegie Library buildings in the province… in 1915-18 he was recorded as an architect in partnership with a “C. Boothe”. He was attracted to the placid and serene atmosphere of Muskoka and moved his family there permanently in 1918. He operated a saw mill and a tourist hotel at Bala Park called Clovelly Inn, on Lake Muskoka.