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Catalogue description Board of Trade and Department of Trade and Industry: Commercial Relations and Treaties Department and successors: Import of Plumage, Ledger of Licences
| Reference: | BT 401 |
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| Title: | Board of Trade and Department of Trade and Industry: Commercial Relations and Treaties Department and successors: Import of Plumage, Ledger of Licences |
| Description: |
This series contians a ledger of licences regarding the import of plumage. The volume contains details of all licences issued for the importation of plumage under the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act 1921: date licence issued, licence number, name of applicant, quantities by birds; eg blackbird wings, peacock quills, annual returns and annual rations (quotas) licensed and actually imported. A list of the birds scheduled in the Act is endorsed on the front cover. |
| Date: | 1922-1975 |
| Related material: |
Records relating to the passage and administration of the Act are in BT 11 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Board of Trade, Commercial Relations and Exports Department, 1949-1970 Board of Trade, Commercial Relations and Treaties Department, 1919-1949 Department of Trade and Industry, Commercial Relations and Exports Department, 1970-1974 Department of Trade, Commercial Relations and Exports Division, 1974-1981 |
| Physical description: | 1 volume(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
in 2011 Department for Business, Innovation and Skills |
| Selection and destruction information: | Selected under themes 3.1 Policy and processes of the state: the formulation of policy and its execution and 3.1.4 Regulation and support of economic activity by government, including industry, services, agriculture, transport, energy, trade, employment and productivity. |
| Accruals: | No further accruals are expected. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
In the late 19th century there was a huge demand for plumage to adorn hats, hair and corsages. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds secured the passage of the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Act 1921 which prohibited the import of plumage other than birds imported alive or for eating and halted the destruction of birds for the feather trade. The Board of Trade was responsible for the implementation of the Act and administered the quotas (or rations as they were then termed). Only those who had a special purpose for the feathers would be considered. The majority were issued to fly fishing manufacturers. |
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