Kläder under klubban : Begagnade kläder på landsbygdsauktioner i 1780-talets Blekinge
(2022) In RIG Kulturhistorisk Tidskrift p.65-83- Abstract
- This article examines the access the people living in the countryside of the late 18th century south-Swedish district of Blekinge had to consumption with a focus on used clothes in the auction trade. Due to trade restrictions and the guild system, the peasantry’s access to consumption of goods was generally severely limited and specifically even more so in the access to both new and used clothes. Protocols of auctions attached to estate inventories is a vital source of information about when, why and how auctions where performed, and how clothes were a distinguished object category in the holding of the peasantry families. As often as the estate would be sold as a whole, it would be sold in part and the clothes form special category that... (More)
- This article examines the access the people living in the countryside of the late 18th century south-Swedish district of Blekinge had to consumption with a focus on used clothes in the auction trade. Due to trade restrictions and the guild system, the peasantry’s access to consumption of goods was generally severely limited and specifically even more so in the access to both new and used clothes. Protocols of auctions attached to estate inventories is a vital source of information about when, why and how auctions where performed, and how clothes were a distinguished object category in the holding of the peasantry families. As often as the estate would be sold as a whole, it would be sold in part and the clothes form special category that are more often chosen to be sold as a whole than other items. The items put up for auctions would with few exceptions be sold, and to a higher price than the asking price. This shows that the demand for all kinds of goods was high on this limited market. (Less)
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- author
- Dackling, Christina LU
- organization
- alternative title
- The peasantry’s second hand : Used clothes at rural auctions in 1780s Blekinge
- publishing date
- 2022-06
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- auction, history of consumption, clothes, second-hand, rural probate records
- in
- RIG Kulturhistorisk Tidskrift
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 29 pages
- publisher
- Föreningen för svensk kulturhistoria
- ISSN
- 0035-5267
- language
- Swedish
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 1e0bd7d8-f941-45f3-bd2d-8e63d79332b8
- date added to LUP
- 2022-09-29 16:38:24
- date last changed
- 2022-10-11 10:13:56
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pages = {{65--83}},
publisher = {{Föreningen för svensk kulturhistoria}},
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title = {{Kläder under klubban : Begagnade kläder på landsbygdsauktioner i 1780-talets Blekinge}},
year = {{2022}},
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