Harry Piers: Museum Maker

Notes from Piers Accession Book:

Built for Mr. Bothwell, February to 24 June 1887, by John M. DeWolfe of DeWolfe's Carriage Factory, corner of Robie and West Street, North West Common, Halifax, for $1,375, plus a new coach horn and leather case, $21.50. It was built from a picture of an English coach, supplied by Bothwell and his associate Jos. Gerard Partington and was a typical English "drag", and was finished in [best] green cloth and leather, with lunch box and basket, zinc-lined ice-box, walking-stick case, lamps, pole, 2 sets whiffletrees and bars, silver-plated mountings; "as per colored plate no. 3."

It remained in Halifax for only a few years, and then was shipped to St. John, New Brunswick, probably going to the U.S.A.

Date Accessioned: 27 August 1923

Reference: Harry Piers number 5308  Nova Scotia Archives Photograph Collection Transportation and Communication: Carriages