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Total number of records: 3563

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Archives3508
Art items45
Objects5
Indexes5

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Art and Antique Market3563
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History2891
Brotherton Collection2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Maple & Co. Ltd24
Maple and Co. Ltd24
Oetzmann and Co.17
Oetzmann & Co.17
A. Overfield & Co.13
A. Overfield and Company13
A. Overfield and Co.13
Thomas Tapling and Co. Limited12
Thomas Tapling & Co. Limited12
John Christie12

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From 18001811
From 19001599

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Up to 19991804

Archive Collection

Roger Warner Antique Dealer's Collection

Roger Warner Antique Dealers; Warner, Roger Harold Metford (1913-2008)

1926-1987

The collection includes the stock books in which Warner kept records of the purchase and sale prices of the antiques in which the business dealt. There are records of the financial transactions of th...

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Archive Collection

H. C. Baxter and Sons Collection

H. C. Baxter & Sons

1951-1978

The collection comprises sales ledgers and stock books from the business of H. C. Baxter and Sons, antiques dealers.

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H. M. Lee & Sons and R. A. Lee Collection

H. M. Lee and Sons; R. A. Lee

1927-1995

The collection comprises the business archive of H. M. Lee, H. M. Lee & Sons and R. A. Lee. It includes comprehensive stock records for the business on index cards and in stock books. The collection...

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Stair and Company Collection

Stair and Company (1911-2004)

1940-1977

Stair and Company were English Furniture dealers. The collection comprises the contents of three albums of magazine and press cuttings and advertisements for the company. These were probably compile...

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Cornelius Medvei Collection of antique dealers' invoices and letters

Medvei, Dr Victor Cornelius (1905-2000)

1952-1985

The collection includes invoices for antiques bought by Cornelius Medvei a collector of antique silver. It also contains correspondence with F. A. Mitchell-Hedges.

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Kent Gallery Ltd. photograph albums

Kent Gallery Limited

1920-1932

The collection comprises two photograph albums which contain photographs of the stock of the antique furniture dealers' Kent Gallery Ltd. The albums were used as inventories of stock and possibly to ...

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Archive Sub-collection

Stock books and commentaries

1936-1987

This sub-collection contains the stock books kept by Roger Warner recording the stock he bought, the price paid and its provenance. Also includes commentaries written by Warner about the stock books.

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Sales ledgers

1957-1978

Includes six sales ledgers, two of which are indexed by customer.

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Archive Sub-collection

Stock records for H. M. Lee & Sons and R. A. Lee

1928-1995

The sub-collection comprises stock cards, a stock book listing items brought by the businesses and a binder containing cuttings, stock cards and invoices.

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Archive Sub-collection

Financial records

1936-1985

This sub-collection includes the cash books and day books for the business. The latter record purchases from the business. There are annual accounts, bank statements and cheque book stubs. Warner's d...

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Administrative records

1932-1985

This sub-collection includes stock books, notebooks recording Warner's buying trips, auction catalogues and correspondence.

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Architectural and refurbishment projects

1926-1977

The sub-collection includes papers for various projects undertaken by Phillips. These encompass architectural projects such as the building and furnishing of Bailiffscourt and the restoration of the ...

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