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Catalogue description George Smith and Sons Ltd, wholesale furriers
This record is held by City of Westminster Archives Centre
| Reference: | 1560 |
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| Title: | George Smith and Sons Ltd, wholesale furriers |
| Description: |
Although many of the company's records were lost through bomb damage in the Second World War, the surviving material provides evidence of the expansion and decline of the fur trade and the impact of the Second World War upon a small firm. |
| Date: | 1873-1982 |
| Arrangement: |
GEORGE SMITH AND SONS LTD CORPORATE RECORDS Board minutes Articles of Association and registers of Directors and Shareholders Share records ACCOUNTING RECORDS Annual reports and profit and loss acounts Ledgers SALES RECORDS Sales anaalysis charts Press cuttings and publicity photographs Advertising brochures STAFF RECORDS PROPERTY RECORDS PHOTOGRAPHS DULLEY AND VINCENT LTD CORPORATE RECORDS Annual General Meetings and Board minutes Memorandum and Articles of Association Shares ledger ACCOUNTING RECORDS Accounts and balance sheets PROPERTY RECORDS MARCEL REICHENSTEIN LTD ACCOUNTING RECORDS |
| Held by: | City of Westminster Archives Centre, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
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| Physical description: | 163 files |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
The records of George Smith and Sons Ltd, were deposited on permanent loan by Mr R Smith of Peat Marwick McLintock, accountants, with the assistance of the Business Archives Council in August 1988. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The firm of George Smith and Sons, wholesale furriers, was founded in 1794 and subsequently incorporated in 1898. Their premises were initially located in Gough Square and from 1848, Watling Street in the City of London. Following the bombing of the Watling Street premises in 1941, the company moved to Liberty Buildings, Regent Street and subsequently 15-16 Kingly Street. The company took over the furriers James Johnson of Paternoster Row between the wars (with Mr Johnson becoming a director of George Smith and Sons Ltd) and also the fur-dyeing company of Marcel Reichensten. In 1979 the wholesalers Dulley and Vincent were also taken over. However, the firm itself went into liquidation in 1988. |
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