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Total number of records: 5533

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives5470
Art items51
Indexes7
Objects5

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Art and Antique Market5533
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History4790
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 14001
From 160021
From 1700153
From 18002296
From 19003010
From 200052

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Up to 16991
Up to 1799101
Up to 18991657
Up to 19991803
Up to latest1971
Archive Collection:
MS 1995
Roger Warner Antique Dealer's Collection
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...
Archive Collection:
MS 1999
Phillips of Hitchin Collection
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...
Archive Collection:
MS 2000
H. C. Baxter and Sons Collection
1951-1978
The collection comprises sales ledgers and stock books from the business of H. C. Baxter and Sons, antiques dealers.
Archive Collection:
MS 2071
Anthony Evans Collection relating to Chinese Ceramics
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...
Archive Collection:
MS 2088
H. M. Lee & Sons and R. A. Lee Collection
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...
Archive Collection:
MS 2089
Stair and Company Collection
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...
Archive Collection:
MS 2220
M. Turpin Limited Photograph Collection
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...
Archive Collection:
MS 2241
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...
Archive Collection:
MS 2259
Cornelius Medvei Collection of antique dealers' invoices and letters
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.
Archive Collection:
MS 2261
Kent Gallery Ltd. photograph albums
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 ...
Archive Sub-collection:
MS 1995/1
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.
Archive Sub-collection:
MS 1999/1
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...