General catalogue of show cases, fittings, book cases, stands &c., executed for H.M. Government at the British & Natural History museums
A 1907 London trade catalogue from William Cubitt & Co. showing display cases, bookcases and stands made for H.M. Government and the British and Natural History museums. The photographs show glazed wooden cases installed in museum galleries, with flat-top table cases, tall upright cabinets and sloping-lid cases holding ceramics, stone bowls and ethnographic objects. A designer could draw on their dark mahogany-like framing, slim glazing bars and the way the cases sit in plain galleries as models for display furniture.
