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520, Oxford Street, later, 22, Orchard Street, Portman Square, London
Late Pickett's.
In the High Court of Justice.—In Bankruptcy.
In the Matter of a Bankruptcy Notice issued on the 5th day of June, 1934, to PERCY STANLEY SCOTT, of 125, Marylebone Road, in the county of London, Gentleman. Take notice that a bankruptcy notice has been issued against you in this Court at the instance of Poile and Smith Limited, of 22, Orchard Street, Portman Square, in the county of London; and the Court has ordered that the publication of this notice in the London Gazette and in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, shall be deemed to be service of the bankruptcy notice upon you. The bankruptcy notice can be inspected by you on application at this Court.
Dated eighteenth day of June, 1934.
FRANK MELLOR, Registrar.
Source: The London Gazette - 22nd June 1934
Thought to have been incorporated into Bravingtons.
Smashing a widow of a shop occupied by Mr. H. Montagu, silversmith, in front of the Piccadilly Hotel, London, a thief made off with trinkets valued at £50.
Source: The Flintshire Observer - 15th April 1909
Henry Montague entered his mark, 'HM', contained within an oblong punch with clipped lower corners, with the London Assay Office on the 9th October 1912.
An elderly man named Arthur Kirby, a silversmith, pleaded guilty yesterday at the Central Criminal Court to having stolen or received a quantity of jewellery, including three challenge cups that had been stolen from the Mildmay Radical Club.
It was stated that the police suddenly entered defendant's premises at Islington and found several thieves in the shop, and on a search a great quantity of the proceeds of no fewer than seven robberies was found. The broken pieces of the challenge cups were concealed in some rubbish under the counter. The prisoner attempted to shoot himself, but was prevented by the police.
The Recorder sentenced Kirby to three years' penal servitude.
111, New Street, Birmingham, later, 24, Regent Street, Waterloo Place, London
Carpenter and Westley - London - 1843
Carpenter and Westley - London - 1868
The oldest manufacturers of magic lanterns in this country are Messrs. Carpenter and Westley, of Regent Street, London. Philip Carpenter began the making of lanterns in Birmingham about the year 1808, and subsequently the late William Westley, who was born in 1807, entered his employment. In 1827, shortly after the removal of the business to London, William Westley rejoined his employer, first as foreman, then as partner; lastly he became the principal. He died at the beginning of this year, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery. Philip Carpenter was the uncle of the late Dr. W. B. Carpenter, the physiologist; the latter is said to have acquired his taste for scientific pursuits from the interest he took as a boy in the lanterns and lantern slides of his uncle. When dissolving views were invented, about 1836, by an Italian, whose name I have been unable to obtain, and, it is said, Henry Childe, independently of each other, Dr. Carpenter wrote to Messrs. Carpenter and Westley, asking how they were produced and giving his own theory; he did not guess that two lanterns were brought into play. That letter is still in existence. When dissolving views were first invented, William Westley put them before the public, but the method of their production was kept secret. William Westley raised lantern slide painting to a fine art; he selected the best artists and encouraged them to improve by paying them twice the usual fees for their work, with something in addition for any exceptional specimen of skill.
Source: The Photographic News - 23rd December 1887
Thomas George Potter, a young working silversmith, of Beek-street, Regent-street. W., appeared before his Honour Judge Addison, Q.C., at Southwark County-court yesterday on a judgment summons, issued at the instance of another working silversmith, for £22 16s., balance of a sum of £50 odd.
The debtor said he was in great difficulties, and had to fill two situations. He worked at his trade during the day and for a railway company in the evening. The consequence was that he left his wife in bed when he went away from home in the morning, and found her there when he returned at night. Owing to this he did not for a long time find that she had given way to drink, and had not paid the instalments due on this debt. He was doing all he could to get clear, but he was in such a hole that he even had to pay for the clothes on his back by a shilling a week.
His Honour: But how did this debt of £50 come about?
The Debtor: Well, sir, with all respect to the late judge, it was a case of a kind of confidence trick being played upon me.
His Honour: You don't mean to suggest that the late judge played the confidence trick upon you?
The Debtor: No, sir, but it would have been all right if I had married the plaintiff's daughter. But I was young then, and had no experience of the world. (Laughter.)
His Honour: I don't know what you mean about the plaintiff's daughter, but, if what you say against your wife is true, then, perhaps, it would have been better if you had married the other lady. (Laughter.)
The Debtor: My wife is an epileptic subject, and she is courting her own death. Her medicine costs me 4s. 7d. a week.
His Honour: If she drinks 4s. 7d. worth of medicine a week, I am not surprised at you saying she is courting her own death. (Laughter.)
The Debtor: I mean she is drinking herself to death. Make it easy for me, sir. Say 7s. 6d. a month for six months.
His Honour: I will alter the amount of the instalment to 10s. a month, but if you don't pay that regularly I shall have to commit you to prison.
A daring robbery was discovered this morning at the premises of I. White, jeweller, Ludgate- hill. The manager this morning found that during the night burglars had entered the place by forcing a trap door on the roof and had got away with a considerable quantity of jewellery, valued at between one and two thousand pounds. The loss is covered by insurance in the Goldsmiths' and General Burglary Association.
Quite a lot of interest has been aroused here in the so-called "mystery diamond" now in the possession of Gordon Nathan, the Hatton Garden diamond merchant. This diamond so strongly resembles the famous Hope diamond in size, shape and weight that dealers and experts are anxious to obtain possession of it. Mr. Nathan, however, says he is not over keen to dispose of it yet awhile. The Sunday Express photographed the gem. It reaches to the top edge of a 50-cent piece stood on end. It is slightly yellow in hue—what is known in the trade as "Cape-white." Mr. Nathan says he knows nothing of its age or history, although he has an idea it is a gem from the famous Romanoff collection. He bought it a year ago and sold it to an Indian collector who was unable to make the necessary payment and returned it. Just now the diamond dealer is inundated with letters from interested people, many of whom urge that the stone be named after Princess Mary or the Prince of Wales. A whole list of names has been submitted as suitable for the gem, while many efforts for its purchase have been received. It is a 44-carat stone, and for want of a better name is at present known as the "Mystery Diamond." At his offices Nathan has a cardboard model of the Hope gem on show and this offers proof of the striking similarity between the two stones.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 6th September 1922
Some very fine gems, reported to have come from an Indian potentate for sale on the European markets, are being displayed for a time at the Selfridge store on Oxford St. Gordon Nathan, the well-known Hatton Garden gem dealer, is negotiating the sale of many of these jewels, but some secrecy is being observed as to the identity of the Indian rajah who has shipped them to London. Their worth is estimated by the Garden to be around $5,000,000. These gems are coming over in sections. The first batch was valued at some $1,250,000. The Garden is in raptures over the beauty of the gems already received. One item in the collection that has been “placed” by Mr. Nathan, is a stomacher of 2,000 gems, set in platinum. The gems used in this piece include three large emeralds of magnificent cut and size, and some drop emeralds encrusted with diamonds. The other gems are composed chiefly of large and flawless diamonds, emeralds and rubies.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 12th May 1926
This is perhaps the same Gordon Nathan who was in partnership with F. von Loer, as Gordon Nathan & Co. and who entered their mark, 'GN&Co' with the London Assay Office late 1910/early 1911. The mark was cancelled on the 27th March 1911.
21, Swinton Street, Gray's Inn Road, later, 56, Clerkenwell Road, London
A GOLDSMITH IN TROUBLE
John Bruce, a goldsmith, of 56, Clerkenwell-road, was charged at Clerkenwell police-court on Wednesday with feloniously receiving 100oz. of platinum, valued at £350, being a portion of about 380oz. which had been stolen from the Stirling Chemical Works, the property of Mr Spence Dunn. The platinum was stolen from Mr Dunn's factory on the 11th October last, and was traced to the possession of the accused who, when charged, said he bought it of a casual customer for £250. The accused was remanded and admitted to bail.
Source: South Wales Echo - 22nd January 1891
John Bruce entered his mark, 'JB', contained within an oblong punch, with the London Assay Office on the 3rd March 1877.
Scotland Yard authorities were busily engaged on Saturday tracing the whereabouts of a man I who is wanted for a daring robbery of jewels and diamonds from the premises of Mr G. R. Young, goldsmith and pawnbroker, Chelsea. He picked up a piece of paving-stone, and with it smashed the large plate-glass window. Hastily snatching two necklaces and a pair of diamond solitaires, valued at £400, the thief made his escape.
45-46, New Bond Street and Burlington Arcade, London
An example of the work and mark of Tessier Ltd.:
HP/LP (Herbert Parsons & Lawrence Parsons - London - 2003
Tessiers Glitter at Sotheby's
By Padmaja Padman
Tessiers of London may not elicit the instant international recognition of a Cartier or Dunhill today, but its collection of antique jewellery and tableware still has a following of its own among Britain's discerning classes.
The exclusive jeweller and silversmith is to sell its entire stock of 450 lots of silver and 350 lots of jewellery through Sotheby's of London this Tuesday and Wednesday.
These are valued between £100 and £12,000 (between $4,500 and $54,000).
Tessiers established in 1852, is under new management and its premises in New Bond Street is currently undergoing extensive structural and renovation work prior to re-opening later this year.
The silver includes several 17th century pieces, but most of the lots comprise items of more recent make.
Among the items of domestic silver are condiment sets, wine labels, candlesticks and salvers.
Of special interest are four silver-gilt lion candlesticks dated 1881, estimated at between £5,000 and £7,000 (between $22,500 and $31,500, and a pair of turtle salt-cellars with a spoon each, and decorated with shells, which are expected to fetch £1,500 to £2,000 (between $6,750 to $9,000).
Apart from a selection of silver animals ranging from birds to elephants, there are also 14 coronets worn by peers at the coronation of George IV, Queen Victoria, Edward VII and George VI respectively.
In the jewellery collection is a diamond necklace made in the last quarter of the 19th century. It can be adapted to make a tiara and is valued at £12,000 to £15,000 (about $54,000 to £67,000).
Pendants, cufflinks, earrings, brooches and tie-pins with sporting motifs like jockeys and game-birds are in the collection. Rings ranging from £500 to £8,000 (about $2,250 to $36,000) will go under the hammer, together with cultured-pearl necklaces estimated at £400 to £8,000 (about $1,800 to $36,000) in value.
Tessiers, with its distinctive old-fashioned shopfront of arched windows, goes back in business to 1712 when its Huguenot founder Etienne de Tessier moved to London.
Initially, the family had no connection with the silver and jewellery trade but a grandson and city merchant, Lewis de Tessier, may have become involved by helping wealthy French refugees dispose of their jewellery.
Over the years, the family which anglicised its name, built up a reputable business. Although no longer in the family's hands, its name has been retained.
The present owners, the Parsons, plan to continue using the historic name and to offer the same standard of excellence that has been the hallmark of the business.
Burglars who ransacked the shop of Mr. King, a goldsmith, of St. John's-lane, Clerkenwell, and took about £1,000 worth of gold, cleaned the sill of the window by which they entered so that no finger-marks might be left to establish their identity. The window opens on a L.C.C. schoolyard, and while the burglars were waiting for a chance to leave it with their plunder, William Bucks, the school caretaker, came in to close a window. They felled him with a jemmy, which they left behind them, and escaped over a wall. Buck was unconscious when he was found some time later. He was taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and is in a serious condition. He could not see his assailants, and the only clue to them is the jemmy. Buck's misadventure was a mystery to the police until they discovered there had been a burglary.
Source: The County Observer and Monmouthshire Advertiser - 28th April 1906
The above report may possibly refer to the firm of John William King.
William Stanley, bookmaker, of Camberwell, who was under remand at Dalston Police-court on a charge of stealing £25 worth of jewellery belonging to Mr. Robert Triggs, has been identified from amongst a number of other men as the person who in April was accessory to the robbery of one silver and six gold watches, value £65, the property of Mr. John Thomas, goldsmith and jeweller, of Kingsland-road. Mr. Thomas, an aged man, said that in April last prisoner spoke to him as he stood at his shop door, engaging his attention in examining a pin from which he said he had lost the diamond. Whilst thus engaged the watches were stolen, and witness had no doubt prisoner was accessory to the robbery, and one of the gang who had stolen so much jewellery lately. Prisoner was committed for trial on the first charge, and Inspector Fuller said the evidence in the second would be laid before the grand jury.
