Period Vendor Enclosures

[Mission]

Here's a nifty illustration of a period marketplace in Alsace featuring all manner of goods. This image is from Schönes Zinn and can also be found reproduced in PEWTER at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The artist is reportedly unknown. (Note predatory parrot on center canopy waiting to wreak havoc on its next unsuspecting victim.)

That pewter tent would be a neat design for a vendor to use at an event - with period proof, yet!

[Note - this topic has been split off from Period Cups and Tankards since it's running in a completely new direction and it seemed like it might hold its own as a thread.]

[Dutchman]

it looks like a market stall. at the time there was a tax for vendors on tent steaks in the ground. the trick was to make your vendors stall free standing. i've seen one or two at marketfairs or colonial williamsburg, but you're right no where near enough varieties of sales stalls out there. of course, the nut that takes his own buildings to living history events is saying its easy to do...... so take it with a grain of salt.