Price current, Halifax 175
Publisher: Printed by John Bushell
Published: 1752
Place of publication: Halifax [N.S.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Printing; Commerce; Jews; History; Juifs; Histoire
Notes: Two copies of the text of the broadside have been printed on this sheet by the "work and turn" method--one copy on the recto and one on the verso. The sheet is designed to be cut in half, producing two copies of the broadside, each with blank verso.

Signed at end: Nathans and Hart.

"This Price current contains a list of 99 commodities such as liquors, food stuffs, building materials, and 'produce of Halifax' (fish), with blank spaces for prices. It was published by a Jewish firm which advertised in the Halifax gazette, Apr. 13, 1752: 'Just imported and to be sold by Nathans and Hart, at their dwelling-house in Hollis Street opposite His Excellency's, for ready money or short credit, by wholesale or retale [sic] at reasonable rates, viz. [list of foodstuffs, etc.] and many other articles too tedious to mention. N.B. Said Nathans and Hart buy oyl, blubber, &c.' The firm soon ceased business, however, according to the notice: 'Nathans & Hart--co-partnership is dissolved and all creditors desired to make speedy payment and avoid further trouble'--Halifax gazette, May 4, 1754"--Tremaine.

"The oldest known artifact relating to Jews in Canada"--Godfrey, caption to reproduction of Price current following p. 69.

Includes bibliographical references (Tremaine 3; Godfrey, S.J. Search out the land; Davies, R.A. Printed Jewish Canadiana, 1685-1900).