Jackson’s Oxford Journal, 1 Jul 1815, pg 1
Cabinet and Upholstery Stock,
Household furniture &c
Bell-Street, Henley, Oxon
To be sold by Auction
By Mr. Othwaite
(Under execution, by order of the Sheriff of Oxfordshire) on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th of July, and on Saturday the 8th of July, 1815. – All the valuable, well-selected, and extensive STOCK in TRADE, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and effects, of Mr. George Paulin, Upholsterer, Paper-hanger, and Cabinet Manufacturer, Bell-Street, Henley; comprising a genteel assortment of new and second-hand 4-pst tent; and other bedsteads, with handsome cotton and scarlet Sayes furnitures, in pieces, and made up; window curtains, goose and other feather beds, mattresses, blankets, and quilts; mahogany secretary and book-cases, wardrobes, three-quarter and dressing chest of drawers, elegant loo, sofa, card, Pembroke, and dining tables, cellaret side boards, bed steps, bason [sic] stands, expensive mahogany, japaned, Grecian and other chairs, elegant chimney and other glasses in gilt and mahogany frames, a costly and ornamental cut-glass lamp chandelier, between two and three hundred yards of Brussels, Venetian, and Kidderminster carpeting, excellent assortment of hearth rugs, oil cloths, made-up bed ticks and mattress cases, handsome fringes, laces, lines, &c, between four and five hundred pieces of paper hangings and borders, large assortment of brass work, taxed cart and harness, market cart, useful grey horse, &c, &c.
The unmanufactured stock will be sold in the third day’s sale, on Wednesday the 5th of July (not in the last day’s sale, as before advertised). It comprises seasoned mahogany in plank, boards, and veneers, wainscot boards, cherry-tree and beech quarters &c &c.
May be viewed the Friday and Saturday before and mornings of sale, which will begin each day at eleven o’clock.
Catalogues (price 6d each, to be returned to purchasers) will be delivered at the Auction Mart, London; at the principal Inns at Staines, Egham, Windsor, Oakingham, Hartford Bridge, Maidenhead, Marlow, Wycombe, Watlington, Oxford, Benson, Wallingford, Reading, and Newbury; place of sale; and of Mr. Othwaite, the auctioneer, Henley.