Ynot Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Looking to source the sort of market fare you'd find on a Victorian market street - strung poultry maybe, fish for display, anything that would fit the period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulears Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Amazon have quite a bit of this kind of thing? A bit of touchup and trimming needed, but fake food can be found there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior8 Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Usually stalls not barrows, goods for sale would be anything you'd find in a shop. You don't need to buy expensive food props. Look at this pic of Hitchin. http://gallery.nen.g...sset73696-.html There would also have been traders simply selling out of baskets at most markets since many people walked to sell their own produce. Small livestock was traded too. (This number of pedestrian workers is the reason that markets by charter or custom and practice have protection up to 6 2/3 miles from any rival market. It was assumed this was the maximum distance that anybody in their right mind would walk each way to trade. It is also why even today if you unawares set up a market within, say, five miles of Bristol St Nicholas you could well find yourself in receipt of an injunction or a bill from the council for permission to run the event.) See Schiemechen J & Carls K The British Market Hall Yale University Press 1999 - the first couple of chapters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owain Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 If you don't need them to last more than a week or so, real vegetables may be cheaper than fakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior8 Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 But make sure they are in season if time of year is crucial. (Pedants Club member!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ynot Posted October 18, 2018 Author Share Posted October 18, 2018 I'm actually more looking for a loaner from one am-dram company to another (suitable donations I'm sure would be negotiable) if anyone has items available...:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jivemaster Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Terralec's sibling http://www.props4shows.co.uk has all sorts of stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owain Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 But make sure they are in season if time of year is crucial. (Pedants Club member!) The ones in season will be cheaper, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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