The Leuchars Archive
Fitted cases, personal possessions and original bills. Discover the Leuchars story through the objects that survive and the documents that place them in time. Choose a subject below or browse the complete record.
Browse all recordsOpening image: an imagined library created for Leuchars.
Begin with the arrangement: objects gathered, separated and kept close at hand.
Explore the travelling service
Portraits gathered, pages turned, a clasp released. Begin with a cabinet photograph album, then explore the objects of private life.
Explore the photograph album
An address, a printed name, a handwritten transaction. Trace the house through its surviving records.
Read the Paris bill
Read the appointment wording on an original billhead, then explore the patrons named and the evidence behind each account.
Examine the appointment wordingThe complete record
Browse every published record below, beginning with the most recent. Attribution, dating, provenance and later alteration are considered where the sources allow.
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.
