ANDREW GRIMA
59, Shaftesbury Avenue, later, 80, Jermyn Street, London
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Grima was the winner of twelve De Beers International Diamond Awards during the 1960's. In 1966 he was granted the Royal Warrant to Queen Elizabeth II and was to hold it for twenty years.
In 1964 he was granted the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and in 1968 created a Liveryman.
In 1966 he opened his shop Jermyn Street, London and during the 1970's opened galleries in New York, Sydney, Zurich and Tokyo. In 1969 he designed a range of watches for Omega.
His customers have included The Queen Mother, Princess Margret, Princess Anne, The Duke of Edinburgh, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Barbara Hepworth, Ursula Andress and Elizabeth Taylor.
Born in 1921, Andrew Grima died in 2007.
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Andrew Grima Limited - London - 1977
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The Jewelled Face of Time in Sydney
A branch of one of the world's most exclusive jewellery shops will open at Rose Bay tomorrow.
Andrew Grima, jeweller by appointment to the Queen, favourite of Mrs Aristotle Onassis, arrived in Sydney on Friday to launch the shop.
Not-so-rich jewellery lovers will be surprised to find that some Grima pieces can be bought for a mere few hundred dollars.
On exhibition at the shop for the first time in Australia will be Andrew Grima's now-famous watch collection which he designed for Omega.
Princess Anne was so delighted with one gold watch called Elegance that she bought it (price $5,445) for her own large collection of watches.
Her choice has a smoky quartz "glass" face and a sturdy bracelet of rectangular blocks of lined gold.
Buyers of the watches will view time through a glass darkly. Many of the faces are covered with precious and semi precious stones; moonstone, rubellite, quartz, diamonds, sapphire and tourmaline.
"The most unusual watches Australia has ever seen," said a Sydney jeweller at a special preview of the exhibition shown after lunch on board the Captain Cook Floating Restaurant on Friday.
The "Antipodes Bracelet Watch" made of Australian opals sold straight away when the collection opened in the Guild Hall in London.
Apart from the collection of watches, which will range in price from $1,985 to $25,725, the Andrew Grima shop will carry merchandise worth $375,000. It will be protected with elaborate alarm systems.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald - 16th August 1970
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A branch of one of the world's most exclusive jewellery shops will open at Rose Bay tomorrow.
Andrew Grima, jeweller by appointment to the Queen, favourite of Mrs Aristotle Onassis, arrived in Sydney on Friday to launch the shop.
Not-so-rich jewellery lovers will be surprised to find that some Grima pieces can be bought for a mere few hundred dollars.
On exhibition at the shop for the first time in Australia will be Andrew Grima's now-famous watch collection which he designed for Omega.
Princess Anne was so delighted with one gold watch called Elegance that she bought it (price $5,445) for her own large collection of watches.
Her choice has a smoky quartz "glass" face and a sturdy bracelet of rectangular blocks of lined gold.
Buyers of the watches will view time through a glass darkly. Many of the faces are covered with precious and semi precious stones; moonstone, rubellite, quartz, diamonds, sapphire and tourmaline.
"The most unusual watches Australia has ever seen," said a Sydney jeweller at a special preview of the exhibition shown after lunch on board the Captain Cook Floating Restaurant on Friday.
The "Antipodes Bracelet Watch" made of Australian opals sold straight away when the collection opened in the Guild Hall in London.
Apart from the collection of watches, which will range in price from $1,985 to $25,725, the Andrew Grima shop will carry merchandise worth $375,000. It will be protected with elaborate alarm systems.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald - 16th August 1970
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Andrew Grima - London - 1969
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DETROIT SHOW FOR YOUNG JEWELLERS
Jewellery by four young British designers will be the subject of a major promotion in November by L.L. Hudson Company, the Detroit department store.
The company has bought a collection of their work, worth about £12,000 at wholesale prices before duty, and is to pay their expenses to enable them to visit the store during the campaign.
Exhibition pieces by the designers are to be lent for the occasion by the Goldsmiths' Company, and in addition, they are likely to take with them examples of their work worth well over £100, 000.
The promotion is a follow-up to a similar display at Hudson's in 1963, which proved to be highly successful. Representatives of the store selected the designers - Andrew Grima, David Thomas, John Donald, and Thomas Payne - after a visit to Britain to inspect contemporary jewellery.
Mr. Grima, managing director and chief designer of the H.J. Company, London, regards the U.S. as one of his company's best markets. Sales there are worth about £30,000 a year, he said. Eighty per cent. of the organisation's turnover comes from exports.
Commenting on the fact that overseas sales of British jewellery (which last year totalled £1.3m.) have begun to rise again after falling to below £900,000 in the late 1950's, he gave as the main reason the fact that design of jewellery in this country is now ahead of that in most other countries.
Another designer from the H.J. Company, Mr. Geoffrey Turk, is taking part in another important promotional effort in Tokyo in September, together with officials of the Goldsmiths' Company, and two silversmiths.
They will attend a stand displaying modern British jewellery and silverware by over two dozen designers at the British Trade Fair.
A parallel exhibition at the Tokyo store Wako will feature antiques and prize-winning modern designs from the Goldsmiths' Hall collection, and contemporary work by students at the Hornsey College of Art.
Source: The Financial Times - 23rd June 1965
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Jewellery by four young British designers will be the subject of a major promotion in November by L.L. Hudson Company, the Detroit department store.
The company has bought a collection of their work, worth about £12,000 at wholesale prices before duty, and is to pay their expenses to enable them to visit the store during the campaign.
Exhibition pieces by the designers are to be lent for the occasion by the Goldsmiths' Company, and in addition, they are likely to take with them examples of their work worth well over £100, 000.
The promotion is a follow-up to a similar display at Hudson's in 1963, which proved to be highly successful. Representatives of the store selected the designers - Andrew Grima, David Thomas, John Donald, and Thomas Payne - after a visit to Britain to inspect contemporary jewellery.
Mr. Grima, managing director and chief designer of the H.J. Company, London, regards the U.S. as one of his company's best markets. Sales there are worth about £30,000 a year, he said. Eighty per cent. of the organisation's turnover comes from exports.
Commenting on the fact that overseas sales of British jewellery (which last year totalled £1.3m.) have begun to rise again after falling to below £900,000 in the late 1950's, he gave as the main reason the fact that design of jewellery in this country is now ahead of that in most other countries.
Another designer from the H.J. Company, Mr. Geoffrey Turk, is taking part in another important promotional effort in Tokyo in September, together with officials of the Goldsmiths' Company, and two silversmiths.
They will attend a stand displaying modern British jewellery and silverware by over two dozen designers at the British Trade Fair.
A parallel exhibition at the Tokyo store Wako will feature antiques and prize-winning modern designs from the Goldsmiths' Hall collection, and contemporary work by students at the Hornsey College of Art.
Source: The Financial Times - 23rd June 1965
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Andrew Grima - London - 1973
ANDREW GRIMA OF JERMYN STREET LONDON
GRIMA GALLERIES AT GEORG JENSEN NEW YORK AND LES AMBASSADEURS ZURICH
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BRITISH WEEK IN BRUSSELS
"Avant garde" Jewellers Would Join Forces
By Sandy Pearce
Brussels, Oct. 3.
Four of London's young jewellery designers have used part of the British Week in Brussels to discuss their plan for a link-up in export promotion and on sales tours abroad.
The designers, Gilian Packard, Ernest Blyth, Frances Beck and Peter Hauffe all have their jewellery on show in specialised exhibitions at several of Brussels' leading jewellery shops.
In their spare time they have been tackling their export and promotional problems, and have come up with an idea, which still needs more groundwork, for their own jewellery export association.
They are all young, very keen and although they undertake varying amounts of export work they are still relatively small, and feel that to mount an impressive and successful export show in any overseas country they need to form themselves and selected other young jewellery designers into an association.
Because of the difference in their individual jewellery designs, they envisage staging joint displays with possibly one or two of the members handling inquires and sales.
The four plan talks with the Board of Trade to gain the maximum support.
Andrew Grima, who is also showing in Brussels and who is Britain's leading exporter of modern style jewellery, has obviously influenced his colleagues. Mr. Grima has been so successful that he is now able to mount very lush displays of his jewellery seemingly at will in many European and U.S. cities.
The would-be association members discount the suggestion that they will duplicate work carried out by the Jewellery Trade Centre's export group. They say the JTC's promotions include a wider variety of jewellery styles, and as such are different in character to their proposed "avant garde" displays.
Source: The Financial Times - 4th October 1967
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"Avant garde" Jewellers Would Join Forces
By Sandy Pearce
Brussels, Oct. 3.
Four of London's young jewellery designers have used part of the British Week in Brussels to discuss their plan for a link-up in export promotion and on sales tours abroad.
The designers, Gilian Packard, Ernest Blyth, Frances Beck and Peter Hauffe all have their jewellery on show in specialised exhibitions at several of Brussels' leading jewellery shops.
In their spare time they have been tackling their export and promotional problems, and have come up with an idea, which still needs more groundwork, for their own jewellery export association.
They are all young, very keen and although they undertake varying amounts of export work they are still relatively small, and feel that to mount an impressive and successful export show in any overseas country they need to form themselves and selected other young jewellery designers into an association.
Because of the difference in their individual jewellery designs, they envisage staging joint displays with possibly one or two of the members handling inquires and sales.
The four plan talks with the Board of Trade to gain the maximum support.
Andrew Grima, who is also showing in Brussels and who is Britain's leading exporter of modern style jewellery, has obviously influenced his colleagues. Mr. Grima has been so successful that he is now able to mount very lush displays of his jewellery seemingly at will in many European and U.S. cities.
The would-be association members discount the suggestion that they will duplicate work carried out by the Jewellery Trade Centre's export group. They say the JTC's promotions include a wider variety of jewellery styles, and as such are different in character to their proposed "avant garde" displays.
Source: The Financial Times - 4th October 1967
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A 1973 advertisement from Canada Dry featuring Andrew Grima:
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Georg Jensen, the famed silver and house accessories shop in New York, has a Special Grima Gallery for the jewelry of Andrew Grima, the eminent British designer. The current collection is called "Sticks and Stones," because it is based on four-inch sticks of emerald and tourmaline and gemstones sought out by Grima himself in Brazil and Africa.
Source: The Newton Graphic - 8th November 1973
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Source: The Newton Graphic - 8th November 1973
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Andrew Grima - London - 1986
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Solid Gold Chalice for Cathedral
Work is nearing completion on a solid 18-carat gold and ruby chalice which is being made by H.J. Company Ltd., Shaftesbury Avenue, London for an Ordination at Westminster Cathedral on 24th May. It is believed that this is the first solid gold chalice to be made in Britain since the war for daily use by a priest.
Source: Jeweller & Metalworker - 1st April 1962
The H.J. Company was inherited by Andrew Grima, it being his Viennese father-in-law's jewellery business. Andrew Grima had married Helène Haller in 1947.
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Work is nearing completion on a solid 18-carat gold and ruby chalice which is being made by H.J. Company Ltd., Shaftesbury Avenue, London for an Ordination at Westminster Cathedral on 24th May. It is believed that this is the first solid gold chalice to be made in Britain since the war for daily use by a priest.
Source: Jeweller & Metalworker - 1st April 1962
The H.J. Company was inherited by Andrew Grima, it being his Viennese father-in-law's jewellery business. Andrew Grima had married Helène Haller in 1947.
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GRIMA GALLERIES LIMITED
Notice is hereby given, pursuant to section 98 of the Insolvency Act 1986, that a Meeting of the Creditors of the above-named Company will be held at 6 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2LP, on Monday, 25th June 1990 at 11 a.m. for the purposes mentioned in sections 99, 100 and 101 of the said Act.
By Order of the Board.
A. Rice, Chairman
5th June 1990
Source: The London Gazette - 19th June 1990
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Notice is hereby given, pursuant to section 98 of the Insolvency Act 1986, that a Meeting of the Creditors of the above-named Company will be held at 6 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2LP, on Monday, 25th June 1990 at 11 a.m. for the purposes mentioned in sections 99, 100 and 101 of the said Act.
By Order of the Board.
A. Rice, Chairman
5th June 1990
Source: The London Gazette - 19th June 1990
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ERNEST BLYTH - FRANCES BECK
Ernest Blyth (1939–1995) started his career in 1957 with a part-time course at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, followed by an apprenticeship in assaying at the London Assay Office of the Goldsmiths’ Company. His first uncompromising abstract brooches were shown in the International Exhibition of Modern Jewellery in 1961, and were acquired for the Company’s Collection. After the exhibition he joined H.J. Company Ltd where Andrew Grima was the lead designer. In 1962 he pioneered batch production silver jewels inspired by the Danish designer Henning Koppel which were sold by Ivan Tarratt Jewellers in Leicester—examples are in the collection of the National Museums Scotland and in the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 1966 he opened a joint workshop with the jeweller, Frances Beck, who had also worked for Andrew Grima. They had a workshop in Shepherd Market and became a highly successful team, winning two De Beers Diamonds International Awards. Beck stopped working as a jeweller after Blyth’s death in 1995. The Company holds two rings from 1972 marked for Blyth and three rings from 1975 marked for Blyth and Beck.
Source: The Goldsmiths' Company
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Ernest Blyth (1939–1995) started his career in 1957 with a part-time course at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, followed by an apprenticeship in assaying at the London Assay Office of the Goldsmiths’ Company. His first uncompromising abstract brooches were shown in the International Exhibition of Modern Jewellery in 1961, and were acquired for the Company’s Collection. After the exhibition he joined H.J. Company Ltd where Andrew Grima was the lead designer. In 1962 he pioneered batch production silver jewels inspired by the Danish designer Henning Koppel which were sold by Ivan Tarratt Jewellers in Leicester—examples are in the collection of the National Museums Scotland and in the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 1966 he opened a joint workshop with the jeweller, Frances Beck, who had also worked for Andrew Grima. They had a workshop in Shepherd Market and became a highly successful team, winning two De Beers Diamonds International Awards. Beck stopped working as a jeweller after Blyth’s death in 1995. The Company holds two rings from 1972 marked for Blyth and three rings from 1975 marked for Blyth and Beck.
Source: The Goldsmiths' Company
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GRIMA GALLERIES LIMITED
At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at 6, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2LP on 5th June 1990 the subjoined Extraordinary Resolution duly passed:
"That it has been proved to the satisfaction of this Meeting that the Company cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same, and accordingly that the Company be wound up voluntarily, and that P. Eliades of 6, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2LP be and he is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purpose of such winding-up."
A. Rice, Chairman
Source: The London Gazette - 6th July 1990
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At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company duly convened and held at 6, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2LP on 5th June 1990 the subjoined Extraordinary Resolution duly passed:
"That it has been proved to the satisfaction of this Meeting that the Company cannot by reason of its liabilities continue its business, and that it is advisable to wind up the same, and accordingly that the Company be wound up voluntarily, and that P. Eliades of 6, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2LP be and he is hereby appointed Liquidator for the purpose of such winding-up."
A. Rice, Chairman
Source: The London Gazette - 6th July 1990
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APPOINTMENT OF LIQUIDATORS
Company Number: 1274300.
Name of Company: GRIMA GALLERIES LIMITED.
Nature of Business: Retail Jewellers.
Type of Liquidation: Creditors.
Address of Registered Office: Finance House, Craven Road, London W.2.
Liquidator's Name and Address: Panos Eliades, 6 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2LP.
Office Holder Number: 0/001518/01.
Date of Appointment: The members appointment of 5th June 1990 was subsequently confirmed by the Creditors of 25th June 1990.
By whom Appointed: Members and Creditors.
Source: The London Gazette - 6th July 1990
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Company Number: 1274300.
Name of Company: GRIMA GALLERIES LIMITED.
Nature of Business: Retail Jewellers.
Type of Liquidation: Creditors.
Address of Registered Office: Finance House, Craven Road, London W.2.
Liquidator's Name and Address: Panos Eliades, 6 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2LP.
Office Holder Number: 0/001518/01.
Date of Appointment: The members appointment of 5th June 1990 was subsequently confirmed by the Creditors of 25th June 1990.
By whom Appointed: Members and Creditors.
Source: The London Gazette - 6th July 1990
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GRIMA GALLERIES LIMITED
Notice is hereby given that a General Meeting of the Members and of the Creditors of the above-named Company will be held at 6 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2LP, on 1st March 1994, at 1.30 p.m. and 2 p.m. respectively, for the purpose of having an account laid before them by the Liquidator (pursuant to section 106 of the Insolvency Act 1986), showing the manner in which the winding-up of the said Company has been conducted, and the property of the Company disposed of, and of hearing any explanation that may be given by the Liquidator. A Member of Creditor entitled to attend and vote at the above Meetings may appoint a proxy to attend and vote in his place. It is not necessary for the proxy to be a Member of Creditor.
P. Eliades
31st December 1993.
Source: The London Gazette - 10th February 1994
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Notice is hereby given that a General Meeting of the Members and of the Creditors of the above-named Company will be held at 6 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2LP, on 1st March 1994, at 1.30 p.m. and 2 p.m. respectively, for the purpose of having an account laid before them by the Liquidator (pursuant to section 106 of the Insolvency Act 1986), showing the manner in which the winding-up of the said Company has been conducted, and the property of the Company disposed of, and of hearing any explanation that may be given by the Liquidator. A Member of Creditor entitled to attend and vote at the above Meetings may appoint a proxy to attend and vote in his place. It is not necessary for the proxy to be a Member of Creditor.
P. Eliades
31st December 1993.
Source: The London Gazette - 10th February 1994
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