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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...
Phillips of Hitchin Collection
Phillips of Hitchin; Phillips, Jerome (1939-); Phillips, Amyas (1891-1962); Phillips, Hugh (1886-1972); Phillips, Frederick William (1856-1910)
1707-2015
The Phillips of Hitchin archive contains stock books, sales ledgers and invoices relating to the acquisition and sale of antiques and artworks. These include prices and values of antiques and artworks...
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.
Anthony Evans Collection relating to Chinese Ceramics
Evans, Anthony John (1954-2008)
1980-2008
The material includes documents written by Anthony Evans, articles about his collecting. There is provenance information relating to his collection of Chinese ceramics. It also contains biographical...
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...
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...
M. Turpin Limited Photograph Collection
M. Turpin Ltd. (1972-2005); Turpin, Maurice
1970s-2005
The collection has been catalogued to reflect the arrangement of the photographs when they were received in Special Collections. Each series contains the photographs which were in a numbered box when...
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
c.1680-c.2017
Private library of archive and printed material relating to all aspects of furniture history and design belonging to the antiques dealer John (Victor) Bedford (1941-2019). The archival collection...
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.
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 ...
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.
Financial records
1888-2015
The sub-collection includes invoices relating to sales made by Phillips of Hitchin. There are also invoices for purchases made by the company. The records cover ledgers showing sales to customers...