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Merchants and Factors in Birmingham

The advertisement lists seventeen merchants and seven factors. Factors were agents who bought and sold goods for others. The most prominent merchant with a separate card is Cauldwell, Burt, Molesworth, Dixon and Co., Baltic Merchants. Their wharf in Broad Street imported timber from Russia and other lands adjoining the Baltic Sea. Pine was likely to be the most important of these products.


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