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Leuchars London

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A world remembered.

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The Leuchars Archive

Objects. Documents. Design.

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.

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Opening image: an imagined library created for Leuchars.

Editorial reconstruction of a carved wooden cabinet photograph album with initials and a silvered clasp.
Editorial reconstruction of the cabinet photograph album; not a photograph of the historic object. Evidence and sources accompany the record.

Personal objects

Portraits gathered, pages turned, a clasp released. Begin with a cabinet photograph album, then explore the objects of private life.

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More objects & curiosities
  1. Record 006The Leuchars Crow Claret Jug, 1881
  2. Record 009A Leuchars Cabinet Photograph Album
  3. Record 008Two Leuchars Tables at Łańcut
  4. Record 011A Leuchars-Stamped Orléans Wedding-Gift Box, 1899
Original Paris bill with Leuchars London and Paris addresses.
Original bill, present Leuchars collection. Photograph supplied by Leuchars London. Date provisionally read as 29 May 1893.

London & Paris

An address, a printed name, a handwritten transaction. Trace the house through its surviving records.

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More London & Paris records
  1. Record 004Lucy Leuchars, Case Maker at 38 Piccadilly
  2. Record 001William Leuchars at the Great Exhibition of 1851
  3. Record 002William Leuchars at the International Exhibition of 1862
  4. Record 003William Leuchars at the Paris Exposition of 1867

The complete record

All records.

Browse every published record below, beginning with the most recent. Attribution, dating, provenance and later alteration are considered where the sources allow.

Editorial view of an early Victorian specialist case maker's shopfront at 38 Piccadilly.
Leuchars London
24/08/2026

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.
Leuchars London
23/08/2026

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
Leuchars London
23/08/2026

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.
Leuchars London
23/08/2026

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.