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Total number of records: 7415

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives7179
Books and printed items172
Art items51
Indexes8
Objects5

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Art and Antique Market7415
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History4791
LGBTQ1868
Brotherton Collection2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
art21
art, modern10
art, british8
painting, british7
art britannique6
art, english6
decoration and ornament6
peinture britannique6
decorative arts5
furniture5

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England25
Great Britain18
France6
Europe3
Scotland3
Oxford (England)2
United States2
Alberta1
Babylon (Extinct City)1
Bordeaux (Gironde)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Maple & Co. Ltd24
Maple and Co. Ltd24
Oetzmann & Co.17
Oetzmann and Co.17
A. Overfield & Co.13
A. Overfield and Co.13
A. Overfield and Company13
John Christie12
Thomas Tapling & Co. Limited12
Thomas Tapling and Co. Limited12

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 1001
From 14001
From 160021
From 1700155
From 18002298
From 19004835
From 2000103

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 16991
Up to 1799101
Up to 18991657
Up to 19993374
Up to latest2281

Archive Collection

Roger Warner Antique Dealer's Collection

Roger Warner Antique Dealers; Warner, Roger Harold Metford (1913-2008)

1926-1987

The collection includes the stock books in which Warner kept records of the purchase and sale prices of the antiques in which the business dealt. There are records of the financial transactions of th...

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Phillips of Hitchin Collection

Phillips of Hitchin; Phillips, Jerome (1939-); Phillips, Amyas (1891-1962); Phillips, Hugh (1886-1972); Phillips, Frederick William (1856-1910)

1707-2015

The Phillips of Hitchin archive contains stock books, sales ledgers and invoices relating to the acquisition and sale of antiques and artworks. These include prices and values of antiques and artworks...

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H. C. Baxter and Sons Collection

H. C. Baxter & Sons

1951-1978

The collection comprises sales ledgers and stock books from the business of H. C. Baxter and Sons, antiques dealers.

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Anthony Evans Collection relating to Chinese Ceramics

Evans, Anthony John (1954-2008)

1980-2008

The material includes documents written by Anthony Evans, articles about his collecting. There is provenance information relating to his collection of Chinese ceramics. It also contains biographical...

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H. M. Lee & Sons and R. A. Lee Collection

H. M. Lee and Sons; R. A. Lee

1927-1995

The collection comprises the business archive of H. M. Lee, H. M. Lee & Sons and R. A. Lee. It includes comprehensive stock records for the business on index cards and in stock books. The collection...

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Stair and Company Collection

Stair and Company (1911-2004)

1940-1977

Stair and Company were English Furniture dealers. The collection comprises the contents of three albums of magazine and press cuttings and advertisements for the company. These were probably compile...

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M. Turpin Limited Photograph Collection

M. Turpin Ltd. (1972-2005); Turpin, Maurice

1970s-2005

The collection has been catalogued to reflect the arrangement of the photographs when they were received in Special Collections. Each series contains the photographs which were in a numbered box when...

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John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History

c.1680-c.2017

Private library of archive and printed material relating to all aspects of furniture history and design belonging to the antiques dealer John (Victor) Bedford (1941-2019). The archival collection...

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Cornelius Medvei Collection of antique dealers' invoices and letters

Medvei, Dr Victor Cornelius (1905-2000)

1952-1985

The collection includes invoices for antiques bought by Cornelius Medvei a collector of antique silver. It also contains correspondence with F. A. Mitchell-Hedges.

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Kent Gallery Ltd. photograph albums

Kent Gallery Limited

1920-1932

The collection comprises two photograph albums which contain photographs of the stock of the antique furniture dealers' Kent Gallery Ltd. The albums were used as inventories of stock and possibly to ...

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Albert Dawson Collection

Rose, Peter Dawson (1927-2020); Gallichan, Albert (1930-2001)

1950-2020

The Albert Dawson Collection was an influential collection of fine and decorative arts primarily dating from the 19th century. It was formed by Peter Rose (1927-2020) and Albert Gallichan (1930-2001) ...

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Archive Sub-collection

Stock books and commentaries

1936-1987

This sub-collection contains the stock books kept by Roger Warner recording the stock he bought, the price paid and its provenance. Also includes commentaries written by Warner about the stock books.

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