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1702 L. Echard Gen. Eccl. Hist. iii. iii. 348 Sometimes he was a Small-Ware Merchant.

1754 C. Denis Select Fables lxxxii. 297 Small-ware dealers.

1816 J. T. James Jrnl. Tour i. 33 At the iron foundery they have acquired an art of casting small ware articles which, I believe, is peculiar to themselves.

1834 Picture of Liverpool 73 Smallware dealer.

1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. xiv. 252 I..set up a small-ware shop.

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Smallware-dealer, Smallware-merchant, a shop-keeper who keeps small wares; a merchant who supplies them.

1918 F. Hurst Gaslight Sonatas iv. 141 There followed a week of lesser department stores,..of offices tucked dingily behind lithograph and small-ware shops.

1989 Winnipeg Free Press 22 June 5/6 (advt.) Auction sale of abandoned personal property... Wash basins—toilets—arborite counter tops—plus a large amount of small-ware items too numerous to mention.

2005 Beaver Dec. 56/1 Euphrasie opened a small shop in her new home, working as a seamstress..Success with the neighbours led her to begin offering a variety of ‘smallware’ items for sale.