Shops in seventeenth-eighteenth century Vilnius

ENIn the seventeenth-eighteenth century, there were quite many large or smaller shops in Vilnius. The sources mostly mention the shops of salt, fabrics, groceries, iron, and iron products. Salt shops sold herrings, oils, imported salted butter, wax; some shops – even dried mushrooms apart from salt. Fabric shops differed among themselves. Some of them sold just fabrics, others, in addition to fabrics, traded in articles of fabrics, ready-made clothes, furs and goods that. Most of the material about them has been collected from trader property inventories.