One item in the London Metropolitan Archives collection is an account book of Robert Williams (Illustration 4.1) that details his upholding business from 1763 to 1772. This account book provides information including descriptions and prices of the goods and services he provided to clients during this time period. The archival administrative history entry states that he was an upholsterer and cabinet-maker of Bow Street, Covent Garden. Examination of the ledger’s entries found that Williams was more than an upholsterer and a cabinet-maker. As we will see in this case study, Robert Williams was an upholder, and as such, sold everything needed to furnish or ‘fit out’ a residential interior, including furniture, upholstery goods, rugs, curtains, blankets, and glass. He frequently sold various household goods to ship captains and provided funeral undertaking and appraisals on a limited basis. While upholders were primarily known for ‘fitting out’ residences, it is evident from Williams’s account book that he did a substantial amount of business with East India Company ship officers as well. What is argued here is that because of the breadth of the goods and services he provided, Robert Williams must be considered an upholder with a specialty niche business in furnishing East India Company officer quarters and selling goods to ship officers engaged in private trading in India and Asia.