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Total number of records: 5358

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Archives5305
Art items42
Indexes7
Objects4

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Art and Antique Market5358
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History4623
Brotherton Collection2

Top 10: People and organisations

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

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From 18002296
From 19003010
From 200052

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Up to 18991625
Up to 19991785
Up to latest1948

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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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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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...

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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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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...

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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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Archive Sub-collection

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...

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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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