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Re Alfred Robert Bray, watchmaker and jeweller. Herne Bay. — This debtor underwent his public examination last month in the Canterbury Bankruptcy Court. The statement of affairs showed liabilities amounting to £210 Is. 7d., and there was a deficiency of £135 3s. 4d. The debtor commenced business in April, 1888. with £50 worth of stock given him by his father and £5 capital. He subsequently established a branch at Sturry. Mr. John Carnegie, solicitor, of London, attending behalf of Messrs. Loveridge & Sons, wholesale jewellers, endeavoured to show that the debtor had falsely explained his position to their representative. Attention was also called to the fact that the bankrupt had not disclosed a quantity of jewellery deposited with Messrs. Attenborough, pawnbroker, Strand, as security for a sum of £12. The examination was adjourned, the Registrar making an order for the bankrupt to file a cash account for the past twelve months.
Source: The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith - 1st August 1889
It is sometimes said " the jewelers' is a poor trade after all," but it hardly seems so when we see that Mr. John Silvani, whose business we all remember at Brighton, has left the Sussex County Hospital a legacy of £10,000, and, further, the residual estate, which will probably be twice that amount, to say nothing of other four figure legacies.
Source: The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith - 1st July 1892
5, Silverwood Terrace, and 52, Preston Street, and 9a, London Road, Brighton
The Birmingham trade is seriously affected by the stoppage of F. C. Evershed, of Brighton. I hardly remember ever having read a list of creditors which included at once so many local names, and for such large amounts. It reads more like romance than fact that such large liabilities should be built up on a starting capital of £60. Could any other trade but our own mismanaged one show such a record ? It is satisfactory to know that the affair is not to be patched up by a private arrangement, but that it is to be dealt with by the Bankruptcy Court. Mr. Attlee, chartered accountant, of Birmingham, is appointed trustee to the estate, with a committee of inspection, in which Birmingham influence largely predominates.
Source: The Watchmaker, Jeweler and Silversmith - 1st October 1892
Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us, the undersigned, Arthur Robert Kirby and John Charles Savage, carrying on business as Jewellers and Leather Goods Salesmen, at No. 199, Old Christchurch-road, Bournemouth, in the county of Southampton, under the style or firm of " KIRBY AND SAVAGE," has been dissolved by mutual consent as and from the twentieth day of November, 1922. All debts due to and owing by the said late firm will be received and paid by the said Arthur Robert Kirby.—Dated this eighth day. of December, 1922.
A. R. KIRBY.
J. C. SAVAGE.
HODSON, Albert Robert, residing at 235, Wimborne-road, Bournemouth, in the county of Hants, Jeweller, and SPINDLER, Frederick George, residing at 31, Cavendish-road, Bournemouth aforesaid, Watchmaker, carrying on business in co-partnership as JEWELLERS and WATCHMAKERS, at 235, Wimborne-road, Bournemouth aforesaid, under the name or style of HODSON and SPINDLER.
Court—POOLE and BOURNEMOUTH
No. of Matter—18 of 1928.
Amount per £—1s. 11d.
First or Final, or otherwise—First and Final
When Payable—Jan. 31, 1929.
Where Payable—The Official Receiver's Office, Midland Bank Chambers, High-street, Southampton.
Alderman E.E. Bishop has been elected Mayor of Bournemouth. He is the proprietor of a large jewellery establishment at 37, Christchurch Road, in that town.
Source: The Jeweller and Metalworker - 1st November 1917
After informing the police of the theft of a brooch and a ring, worth around $1,250, a Folkestone jeweler went to his home, became ill and died within a few minutes. R. Brilliant, the jeweler in question, was in business in Hatton Garden for many years before opening an establishment at the seaport town. The other morning a man asked the price of some candlesticks in the jeweler’s window. The jeweler went outside to look at the articles indicated and while there was asked by another man what the cost of mounting some gold coins would be. After telling the man inside the price of the candlesticks the latter promised the jeweler he would be back with his wife. Immediately afterwards the ring and brooch were missed.