Archive Record 015: A Leuchars and Son Paris Bill, 1893
A Paris bill bearing the Leuchars and Son, Geffroy name connects 2 rue de la Paix with a London corresponding house and a handwritten transaction apparently dated May 1893.
A Paris bill bearing the Leuchars and Son, Geffroy name connects 2 rue de la Paix with a London corresponding house and a handwritten transaction apparently dated May 1893.
A receipted bill dated 1 March 1877 records work on a silver cigarette case and apparent monogram engraving, placing an individual client beneath the printed London and Paris addresses.
A labelled correspondence box offers a study of papers, practical organisation and the distinction between a case and its marked lock.
A silver-gilt-mounted glass box stamped Leuchars & Son Geffroy Sr Paris was catalogued as Prince Henri d’Orléans’s 1899 wedding gift to Jean and Isabelle d’Orléans.
A French travelling toilet service with Aucoc maker’s marks and a Leuchars-Geffroy carriage clock reveals how fitting, manufacture and retail identity could meet within one complex case.
A carved cabinet-photograph album in the Science Museum Group collection connects a Leuchars-marked Piccadilly clasp with Victorian portrait collecting and personal memory.
Two Leuchars-marked English auxiliary tables at the Castle Museum in Łańcut connect compact furniture, Paris retail and the Potocki family's purchases.
Livrustkammaren preserves Leuchars-marked components from a travelling dressing service used by Crown Prince Gustaf of Sweden, dated principally to 1877–1878.
Registered in December 1881, the Leuchars crow claret jug combined a clear-glass body with modelled silver and parcel-gilt mounts to create a functional Victorian object in avian form.
The Science Museum Group preserves a decorated medicine chest associated with Leuchars of London, dated circa 1830 and fitted with twelve glass bottles from Dinneford of New Bond Street.