Cambridge Chronicle 5 May 1815: Humphreys effects sale

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and EFFECTS,

TOWN-BUILT TANDEM GIG AND HARNESS,

TRUMPINGTON

To be SOLD by AUCTION,

By ELLIOT SMITH,

on THURSDAY the 11th day of May, 1815, on the premises of Mrs. Humphreys, (who is leaving her farm,) on account of the number of lots, punctually at eleven o’clock;

All the neat HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE and effects, consisting of four-post bedsteads with carved posts and green furniture, a very handsome full-sized four-post bedstead with carved mahogany posts and cotton furniture, lined throughout with yellow with a fringed cornice, excellent geese and other feather-beds and bedding, mahogany tray-top night table, ditto double chest of drawers, small ditto, ditto bureau and bookcase, 3 ft. 6 in. beautiful wood, with glass doors and silk curtains, set of 4 ft. dining tables, eliptic ends, square dining, card, and pembroke tables, 6 and 2 elbow Grecian-back chairs, ornamented with brass, with horse-hair cushions, bedroom and other chairs, a superfine Kidderminster carpet, and piece containing 28 square yards, nearly new, japanned and other dressing tables, box and swing glasses, &c.

Kitchen and Dairy Utensils consists of a very excellent barrel churn, will make 40lbs, a patent ditto, milk keelers, cheese tub, a 3-legs, large cheese press, harvest bottles, brass and other boilers, fish kettle, &c. &c.

Also, a very handsome Town-built Tandem Gig, with seat behind, with patent boxes and lamps, and a set of harness for ditto brass-mounted, nearly new.

To be viewed the day before the sale, where catalogues may be had, and at the Green Man, Trumpington; Black Swan, Shelford; George, Sawston; New Inn, Chesterford; Black Bull, Royston; and neighbouring villages; and of Elliot Smith.