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Editorial reconstruction of an open black leather travelling case with an olive fitted interior, silver-mounted glass vessels, a carriage clock and grooming tools.

Archive Record 010: An Aucoc-Marked Travelling Service with a Leuchars-Geffroy Clock

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.

Editorial reconstruction of a carved wooden cabinet photograph album with D K initials and a silvered clasp.

Archive Record 009: A Leuchars Cabinet Photograph Album

A carved cabinet-photograph album in the Science Museum Group collection connects a Leuchars-marked Piccadilly clasp with Victorian portrait collecting and personal memory.

Editorial reconstruction of an oval oak auxiliary table with four caster legs.

Archive Record 008: Two Leuchars Tables at Łańcut

Two Leuchars-marked English auxiliary tables at the Castle Museum in Łańcut connect compact furniture, Paris retail and the Potocki family's purchases.

Rectangular glass jar with a hinged silver-gilt cover bearing Crown Prince Gustaf’s crowned monogram.

Archive Record 007: Crown Prince Gustaf’s Leuchars Travelling Service, 1878

Livrustkammaren preserves Leuchars-marked components from a travelling dressing service used by Crown Prince Gustaf of Sweden, dated principally to 1877–1878.

Clear glass crow-form vessel with chased silver head, two feet and tail against a black background.

Archive Record 006: The Leuchars Crow Claret Jug, 1881

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.

Closed black lacquer medicine chest with floral and bird inlay and aged brass fittings.

Archive Record 005: A Leuchars Medicine Chest, c.1830

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.

Editorial view of an early Victorian specialist case maker's shopfront at 38 Piccadilly.

Archive Record 004: Lucy Leuchars, Case Maker at 38 Piccadilly

Lucy Leuchars is documented as a writing-desk and dressing-case maker at 38 Piccadilly. Archive Record 004 examines the directories, object label and royal association that preserve her place in the…

Editorial illustration of the elliptical exhibition palace and grounds in Paris in 1867.

William Leuchars at the Paris Exposition of 1867

A contemporary French account records William Leuchars's silver medal at the Paris Exposition of 1867 and praises the taste, luxury and durability of the firm's dressing cases.

Plate 104 showing table and toilet ornaments exhibited by W. Leuchars in London in 1862

Archive Record 002: William Leuchars at the International Exhibition of 1862

A contemporary and official record of W. Leuchars’s table and toilet ornaments, dressing cases and leatherwork at London’s International Exhibition of 1862.

Official 1851 Great Exhibition catalogue entry and engraving of the dressing case exhibited by William Leuchars.

William Leuchars at the Great Exhibition of 1851

Archive Record 001 studies the walnut dressing case exhibited by William Leuchars of 38 Piccadilly at the Great Exhibition of 1851.