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