Archive Record 012: A W. Leuchars-Labelled Correspondence Box
A labelled correspondence box offers a study of papers, practical organisation and the distinction between a case and its marked lock.
Objects
Archive Record 011: A Leuchars-Stamped Orléans Wedding-Gift Box, 1899
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
