Andrew Taylor & Son entered their marks at the Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Chester assay offices. During the 1930's the business was noted as being in the sole ownership of Charles Taylor.
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thanks so much for this.....this is my great grandfather....doing a bit of family tree research and this is great. have a christening spoon and some other bits and bobs lying around. thanks again!!!!! cheers, simon
An example of the work and mark of James Muirhead & Sons:
J.M.&S. - Glasgow - 1878
James Muirhead & Sons - Glasgow - 1861
James Muirhead & Sons - Glasgow - 1873
James Muirhead & Sons box detail
Established in 1816.
In consequence of the old firm of Messrs. J. Muirhead & Sons, 90, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, giving up business, their stock of watches, clocks and jewellery was auctioned last month: the sale, which was a most exhaustive one, comprised 1150 lots.
The removal of the firm from the city, says the North British Mail, severs another link with the past history of Buchanan Street, as 70 years have come and gone since they started business, and during that time have maintained a high reputation for the quality and chaste design of their watches and jewellery of all kinds.
Source: The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith - 1st June 1889
It would appear that around 1885 the business was sold off by the Muirhead family. In 1888, the owners were known to be James R. Stewart and John A. Stewart (likely James Robert Stewart and John Allan Stewart, who both around this time were Freemen of the Glasgow Hammermen and Members of the Glasgow Goldsmiths' Company), they appear to have gone out of business in the following year.
80, Argyle Street, later, 57, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow
Muirhead & Arthur - Glasgow - 1905
Muirhead & Arthur - Glasgow - 1907
Established in 1843.
The Provincial Grand Lodge met in the County Buildings, where, before it was opened, Provost M'Ausland, in name of the Council, presented to the P.G.M., Alexander Smollett, Esq. of Bonhill, a handsome silver trowel, to be used by him that day in laying the foundation stone, and bearing the following inscription:–"Presented by the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of the Burgh of Dumbarton to Alexander Smollett, Esq. of Bonhill, R.W.G.M. of the province of Dumbartonshire, on the occasion of his laying the foundation stone of the new Burgh Academy and Town Hall, on the 23rd day of June, in the year of our Lord 1865." The handle is ivory, decorated with the Smollett armorial bearings, and the workmanship is highly creditable to the makers, Messrs Muirhead & Arthur, jewellers, Glasgow. The Grand Lodge having been opened in due order, thereafter the members of it formed in procession in front of the County Buildings, with the other Masonic Lodges present, and where they were joined by the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council, and marched to the Parish Church, shortly after noon.
Source: Macleod's History of the Castle & Town of Dumbarton - Donald Macleod - 1877
Muirhead & Arthur entered their marks 'M & A' contained within a twin-circle punch, and 'M & A' contained within an oblong punch, with the Glasgow Assay Office.
STEWART, ROWELL-STEWART & Co., later, S.R. STEWART & Co.
Aberdeen Comb Works, Aberdeen, and 13, Grocers' Hall Court, Poultry, London, and 126, Queen Victoria Street, London, and 14, Carr's Lane, Birmingham
Stewart, Rowell Stewart & Co. - Aberdeen - 1868
S.R. Stewart & Co. - Aberdeen - 1875
S.R. Stewart & Co. - Aberdeen - 1899
S. R. STEWART & CO., Comb Manufacturers, Aberdeen, N.B., and 126, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.
Comb-making is and has been from the earliest ages an important and extensive industry, in which a considerable variety of materials are employed, the most common being the horns and hoofs of cattle, ivory, tortoise-shell, boxwood, vulcanite or hardened india-rubber, and to a small extent German silver, iron, and gold and silver. Old writers assert that the comb is of Egyptian origin, and that the material used in the manufacture of this indispensable article of the toilet was in very early times principally boxwood and ivory. The fabrication of horn into combs was, in the Middle Ages, largely carried on in the cities of London and Bristol, and in Yorkshire.
About the year 1828 a machine was invented of a singularly ingenious design and construction, having for its principal object that of cutting two combs out of one piece of horn or tortoiseshell. Two years afterwards Messrs. S. R. Stewart & Co. commenced the manufacture in Aberdeen, and they have since become the largest manufacturers of combs in the world. This Firm turns out over seventeen millions of single combs annually, being considerably more than half of the entire production of Great Britain.
In Messrs. Stewart's factory the raw material annually consumed averages about 6,000,000 horns, and about 12,000,000 hoofs. The sources whence this raw material is drawn are very diverse, the hoofs coming mainly from North and South America, Australia, and Germany. They are used generally in the manufacture of the cheapest description of combs; but although the least valuable material, it is the subject of the most costly and ingenious mechanical appliances in the process of its manufacture. Of horn there are two classes, namely, buffalo and ox horns, both of which are imported from various parts of the globe. Ox and cow horns are procured chiefly from South America and Australia, whilst India, China, and Siam supply buffalo horns. The quantity of horn and hoofs in stock upon Messrs. Stewart's premises generally amounts to upwards of 100 tons of each.
When the horn is brought into the factory it is first sorted into sizes, preparatory to being cut into pieces. This is done by means of saws worked by a steam-engine of 300 horse-power, and in this operation 100,000 horns can be cut up in a week. A horn is twice cut transversely, and afterwards, if a large one, longitudinally. The solid tips of horn which remain are disposed of for either button-making or for being formed into knife or other handles. Other scraps and cuttings are of great value to makers of prussiate of potash, and for artificial manure. The sections to be used for combs are then taken to the opening department, where they are wetted in water, and heated over an open fire, till the horny substance becomes quite soft. Hoofs in their first stage are, after being boiled for a certain time to render the fibre soft, cut into two pieces; or rather the sole is stamped out by means of vertical punching-machines of the same irregular conformation.
The horns and hoofs thus cut are next brought in pieces into the pressing department, which occupies the whole basement floor of one part of the building. Along the floor of this department are erected thirty-six furnaces of a peculiar construction, and at each of these a man and boy are employed in shaping the cut horns into flat plates by first opening out and heating the pieces between tongs, and then cutting them to the required shape with a knife. They are then inserted between screw plates, where they are pressed quite flat. If, however, the plates are required for staining in imitation of tortoise-shell, they are at this stage inserted in strong iron frames between heated and oiled iron plates, in which they are submitted for some time to enormous pressure by a wedge being driven into the press by the percussion force of a ram, or a weight falling from the height of eight feet, producing a force of about 120 tons. This pressure exercised on the horn contained within the iron plates has the effect of breaking the fibre to a certain extent, and forcing it to expand in a lateral direction. After this pressure the plates are found to possess a translucent appearance, becoming perfectly soft, and of a uniform dark-green colour. This peculiar treatment, however, operates injuriously on the fibre or grain of the horn, rendering it liable to split. The ram and wedge is not the only means of pressure employed. Around the apartment are arranged 120 iron screw-presses, fitted with steel dies bearing a variety of engraved designs, and into these braid-combs, the outside coverings of pocket-combs, and side-combs are pressed. A pressure of fifty tons can be produced by one of these presses.
After receiving the necessary formation by the various modes of pressing, the plates are laid aside to dry in a room where a high temperature is preserved by means of steam-pipes. Subsequently they are assorted into different sizes, and the edges squared and trimmed on circular saw benches.
The next process to which the plates of shell, horn, or hoof is applied in the manufacture of dressing-combs is the tooth-cutting. Certain classes of horn-plates, however, are subjected to a farther process of planing on the surface preliminary to this operation. There are two distinct methods of tooth-cutting employed in the manufacture of ordinary combs. The first method, which is applied to all fine combs, consists in cutting out the teeth by means of circular saws, and this is the only process applicable to the preparation of fine-toothed combs, and all combs made of ivory or boxwood. Saw-cutting is, moreover, the only process formerly adopted, but instead of a circular saw the comb-maker used a gauged hand-saw called a "stadda," or "steady." The saws now employed are of small diameter; and, according to the work they have to perform, they are fine-toothed and thin, some of them being constructed to cut from 70 to 80 teeth per lineal inch. The saws are mounted on a spindle, which revolves with great rapidity, and the plate or plates of horn to be toothed are clamped up in a holder, which is alternately raised and depressed, bringing the horn each time against the saw, which cuts out one tooth to its full depth. After each cut, an automatic arrangement moves the horn forward the breadth of a tooth, the gearing being so arranged that the teeth may be cut fine or coarse at pleasure.
The second method of cutting the teeth is known as the "twinning " process, from the fact that a pair of combs are cut out of a single plate. Around the apartment where this branch of the work is carried on, and in close proximity to each other, are twenty-four " twinning " machines. Each of these machines is worked by a man, with a boy, who keeps up a supply of hot plates from the numerous fires arranged for that purpose in the centre of the room. A plate of horn, after being heated, is placed on a small carriage within the cast-iron frame of the machine, which travels by means of a particular arrangement of gearing on parallel slides. Immediately above this are situated two angular-shaped, chisel-like cutters, which, on the application of a motive power, descend on the horn with such rapidity and power that the plate is instantly and at one blow cut into two pieces, the one half literally taken out of the other, and each of them presenting the well-defined outline of a comb; what is removed to form the teeth of one comb being exactly sufficient for the teeth of a corresponding opposite comb. When the cutting of " twinned " combs is complete, the plate presents the appearance of a pair of combs with their teeth exactly inosculating or dovetailing into each other. A comb-maker of the old school could not, perhaps, with all his skill, by means of his hand-saw, cut more than 80 or 100 combs per day, whilst with the " twinning " apparatus one man and a boy will cut upwards of two thousand of the same kind of comb, and that, too, with a consumption of not more than half the material.
The finer class of dressing-combs, however, and all fine-tooth combs are still cut by means of circular saws, which process constitutes the next cutting department. Here there are wheels on the fine self-acting machinery in connexion with the cutting and pointing of combs, that revolve 5,000 times in a minute, and saws so delicately fine as to cut forty teeth within the space of an inch.
After the combs are formed, either by the circular saw or the twinning machine, they are next thinned or tapered to their outer edges on grindstones. They then pass to the " grailing " department, where each individual tooth of the comb is rounded or bevelled, tapered, and smoothed. The work of grailing is effected by the use of different sorts of cutting rasps, and then smoothed with sandpaper, buffed on leather wheels, and otherwise polished. If, as is frequently the case, the combs are to be finished as imitation tortoise-shell, they are treated with diluted nitric acid, which imparts to the material a light yellow tinge, like the ground-colour of tortoise-shell; the remaining stains being produced by caustic soda, litharge, and dragon's blood; after this they are polished as above stated.
The elaborately-pierced patterns of ornamental back-combs are cut out by small ribbon saws, and the work is generally finished by hand-carving with proper tools.
From the waste horn Messrs. Stewart make a very valuable fertilizer called "Keronikon," which is highly appreciated and used by the largest manure makers in the country, and recommended by Dr. Voelcker and the Clovenford Vineyards as one of the best propagators of the vine.
Source: Wyman's Commercial Encyclopædia of Leading Manufacturers of Great Britain - Wyman & Sons - 1888
12 & 16, George IV Bridge, later, Castle street, Edinburgh
An example of the work and mark of Fenton, Russell & Co Ltd., a tea/coffee set, assayed at Sheffield in 1917:
F.R & Co Ld - Sheffield - 1917
Established in 1822 by Thomas Russell at Hunter Square, Edinburgh. The business was later continued by James Fenton and his partner, Ferguson.
Fenton, Russell & Co Ltd. entered their mark with the Sheffield Assay Office on the 17th May 1901. The firm also used the services of the London, Chester, Edinburgh and Glasgow assay offices.
James Fenton, James L. Fenton and James Denholm have all been noted as being a directors of Fenton, Russell & Co. Limited.
James Fenton died aged 72 years in 1910.
Dissolutions of Partnerships - Edinburgh and Leith
Russell Thomas and Co.—16 George 4th Bridge and 6 Hunter-square, wholesale watch and clock manufacturers and wholesale ironmongers. James Fenton, James Scott Ferguson. The watch and clock, &c. business, at George 4th Bridge, will be continued by James Fenton under the old style, and the ironmongery business at Hunter-square by James Scott Ferguson, also under the old style. 21st July 1876.
Source: The Scotch Commercial List - Seyd & Co. - 1877
...............The Council, after consideration, resolved to remit the selection of the design for the President's Badge to the following Committee :–Messrs. Motion, Thomson, Skinner, and Wood, to consult with Mr. Smith, Jeweller, Glasgow, with power to order the same.
William Millar.
Society of Inspectors of Poor Sub-committee on Badge, held Tuesday, 10th December, 1907, at Glasgow, within the Parish Council Chambers.
Present:–Messrs. Skinner, Thomson, Wood, and Motion, with Mr. Wm. Smith, Jeweller, Buchanan Street, who was appointed to give expert advice.
Mr. Smith was called upon to preside. Offers were submitted with sketches of proposed Badge and Chain, from four different offerers, and it was agreed to accept the offer of Messrs. Fenton, Russell & Co., Ltd., 12 and 16 George IV. Bridge, Edinburgh, for Badge No. 1, 15 ct. Gold, in case, about £31, and also to request price for links to form a chain, Mr. Smith to be fully empowered to advise and accept their offer if suitable.
William Millar.
Note.–Messrs. Fenton, Russell & Co., Ltd., replied quoting 57/6 per link, and submitting a sketch. This has been submitted to Mr. Smith, who neither approves of the sketch nor the price, and is arranging for a sketch of a suitable link. Messrs. Fenton, Russell & Co., Ltd., are, however, proceeding with the Badge only.
Source: The Poor Law and Local Government Magazine - 1908
FENTON RUSSELL & CO. LIMITED AND REDUCED, 12 and 16 George IV. Bridge, Edinburgh.
NOTICE is hereby given that a Petition has been presented by the above-named Company to the Lords of Council and Session (Second Division,–Mr. Campbell, Clerk) on 30th January 1912, praying their Lordships, inter alia, to make an Order confirming the Reduction of the Capital of the said Company resolved on by the following Special Resolution of the Company, passed at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on 13th January 1912, and confirmed at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on 29th January 1912, namely :–That the capital of the Company be reduced from £30,000 sterling, divided into 6000 shares of £5 each, to £15,000 sterling, divided into 6000 shares of £2, 10s. each, and that such reduction be effected by returning to the holders of the said shares, all of which have been issued, paid up capital to the extent of £2, 10s. per share, and by reducing the nominal amount of each of the shares from £5 to £2, 10s. The Court has pronounced the following Interlocutor in the said Petition :–
Edinburgh, 31st January 1912.–The Lords appoint the Petition to be intimated on the Walls and in the Minute-Book in common form ; to be advertised once in the Edinburgh Gazette and once in the Scotsman newspaper ; and allow any one interested to lodge Answers, if so advised, within eight days thereafter ; further, hoc stitu and during the dependence of the Petition, dispense with the addition of the words ' and ' reduced ' as part of the name of the Company.
J. H. A. MACDONALD, I.P.D.
COUTTS & PALFREY, S.S.C., Agents for the Petitioners.
24 Alva Street, Edinburgh,
2nd February 1912.
Source: The Edinburgh Gazette - 2nd February 1912
FENTON RUSSELL & COMPANY LIMITED, 12 and 16 George IV. Bridge, Edinburgh.
Notice is hereby given that, in the Petition presented by the above Company to the Lords of Council and Session (Second Division,–Mr. Campbell, Clerk), praying their Lordships to make an Order confirming the Reduction of the Capital of the said Company, resolved on by Special Resolution passed at an Extraordinary Central Meeting of the Company held on 13th January 1912, and confirmed at an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on 29th January 1912, in terms of the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, the Court has pronounced the following Order, videlicet:–
Edinburgh, 15th March 1912.–The Lords having resumed consideration of the Petition, together with the Report by Mr. W. G. L. Winchester, W.S., No. 19 of Process, approve of said Report; settle the List of Creditors entitled to object to the reduction of capital, No. 15 of Process ; find that the sole Creditor mentioned therein has consented to the reduction within the meaning of the Companies (Consolidation) Act, 1908, section 49 ; confirm the reduction of capital resolved on by the Special Resolution of 13th and 29th January 1912, as set forth in the Petition; approve of the ' Minute set forth in the Petition; dispense altogether with the further use of the words ' and reduced' as part of the Company's name ; direct the registration of the Confirmation Order and of the said Minute by the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies ; and on this Order and the said Minute being registered by the said Registrar, order notice of such registration to be given by advertisement once in the Edinburgh Gazette ; and decern.
(Signed) "J. H. A. MACDONALD, I.P.D.
A copy of the Minute referred to in the above Order in appended hereto, and a copy of said Minute, along with a copy of said Order, has been registered by the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies in Scotland.
COUTTS & PALFREY, S.S.C., Agents for the Petitioners.
24 Alva Street, Edinburgh,
19th March 1912.
COPY OF THE MINUTE REFERRED TO.
" The capital of Fenton Russell & Company Limited, Edinburgh, is £15,000, divided into 6000 ordinary shares of £2, 10s. each, all of which have been issued and are fully paid."
Source: The Edinburgh Gazette - 19th March 1912
The Companies Act, 1929.
Company Limited by Shares.
SPECIAL RESOLUTION of FENTON, RUSSELL & CO. LIMITED, passed 13th April 1948.
At an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of the above Company, duly convened, and held at 12 to 16 George IV. Bridge, Edinburgh, on Tuesday the 13th day of April 1948, at 5 o'clock afternoon, the following Resolution was duly passed as a Special Resolution :–
RESOLUTION.
" That Fenton, Russell & Co. Limited be wound up voluntarily, and that John Smith Wells, Chartered Accountant of 8 Forres Street, Edinburgh, be, and is hereby, appointed the Liquidator to conduct the winding up."
JOHN S. WELLS, Liquidator.
Robert M'Innes, watchmaker and jeweller, 8, Buchanan-street, Glasgow, trading under the firm of M'Innes Brothers, of which he is sole partner, has been examined in the Glasgow Bankruptcy Court. Bankrupt stated that he was formerly in business with his brother, but that they dissolved partnership about three years ago. Some of the creditors at that time claimed under the present sequestration. He looked after the mechanical instrument department, and his manager conducted the jewellery business and kept the books, as he knew nothing about bookkeeping. Since his brother's retiral there had only been one balance made. His wife made a claim upon the estate for £3,000, and in addition he was behind some £9,000. He was aware there had been considerable pledging of goods. The system had been involving the payment of large sums of interest. They pledged to take the goods out of people's hands who were calling for interest. They pledged goods to relieve goods, not to raise money. He was, however, absolutely ignorant of the tremendous extent to which pawning was going on, and of the advances made thereon, and the large sums that had been paid for interest. Asked if for the last three years there has been a thousand a year paid for interest on pledges, bankrupt said he was not aware of that. At a later hearing the deposition of his manager–who averred that all that was done Mr. M'Innes had been cognisant of–having been read over, the bankrupt observed that in almost every particular it was in direct contradistinction to his own. He had nothing to add to his former deposition, which he adhered to. He never gave the manager any goods to pawn, nor to redeem or repledge, except what he had referred to in his last examination. Altogether his personal pledgings did not exceed £200, and he was sure the goods he pledged were paid for. He did not try to sell pawn-tickets in London, and he never granted I O U's to pawnbrokers. The examination was closed.
Source: The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith - 1st December 1890
A registration at the Glasgow Assay Office for McInnes & Co. may possibly be relevant. The mark entered being 'McI&Co' contained within a triple circle punch with the centre circle larger, all circles tipped.
Two young men and two young women were remitted to the Sheriff by Dr. George Neilson, the Stipendiary Magistrate, at the Central Police Court, Glasgow yesterday, in connection with the robbery at the premises of Messrs. David Dow & Sons, jewellers, 68, Argyle Street, on Monday, April 7. Jewellery valued at £3,000 was removed from the shop, but all the missing articles, with the exception of nine watches, were recovered when the police effected the arrest of the alleged thieves on the following morning.
Source: The Glasgow Herald - 15th April 1913
David Dow registered his mark 'D.D' contained within an oblong punch, with the Glasgow Assay Office in 1896.
FRASER, Robert, an ingenious poet, remarkable also for his facility in the acquisition of languages, the son of a sea-faring man was born June 24, 1798, in the village of Pathhead, parish of Dysart, Fifeshire. Although his parents moved in a humble sphere of life, they contrived to give their children a good education. In the summer of 1802, Robert was sent to a school in his native village where he continued for about eighteen months. In 1804 he was removed to a seminary kept by a Mr Laverock, which he attended for about four years. He afterwards went to the town's school of Pathhead, and early in 1809 commenced the study of the Latin language. In 1812 he was apprenticed to an eminent wine and spirit merchant in Kirkcaldy, with whom he remained four years. In the summer of 1813 he was a afflicted with an abscess in his right arm, which confined him to the home or several months, during which time he studied the Latin language more closely than ever, and afterwards added the Greek, French, and Italian ; and acquired a thorough knowledge of general literature. In 1817, on the expiry of his apprenticeship, he became clerk or bookkeeper to a respectable ironmonger in Kirkcaldy, and in the spring of 1810 he commenced business as an ironmonger in that town, in partnership with Mr James Robertson. In March 1820, he married Miss Ann Cumming, who, with eight children, survived him. His leisure time was invariably devoted to the acquisition of knowledge; and in September 1825 be commenced the study of the German language. About this period his shop was broken into during the night, and jewellery to the value of £200 stolen from it, of which, or of the robbers, no trace was ever discovered. Having made himself master not only of the German but of the Spanish languages, be translated from both various pieces of poetry, which, as well as some original productions of his, evincing much simplicity, grace, and tenderness, appeared in the Edinburgh Literary Gazette, the Edinburgh Literary Journal, and various of the newspapers of the period. In August 1833, his co-partnership with Mr Robertson was dissolved, and he commenced business on his own account. Owing, however, to the sudden death, in 1836, of a friend in whose pecuniary affairs was deeply involved, and the decline of is own health, his business, notwithstanding his well-known steadiness, industry, and application, did not prosper; and, in 1837, he was under the necessity of compounding with his creditors. It is much to his credit that, in his hour of difficulty, several respectable merchants of his native town came forward and offered to become security for the composition. In March 1838, he was appointed editor of the Fife Herald ; and on leaving Kirkcaldy, he was on August 31 of that year, entertained at a public dinner by a numerous and respectable party of his townsmen, on which occasion he was presented with a copy of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, seventh edition, as a testimonial of respect for his talents and private character. The weak state of his health, however, did not allow him to exercise the function of editor long, and on his being at last confined to bed, the duties were delegated to a friend. In the intervals of acute pain be employed himself in arranging his poems with a view to publication; and among the last acts of his life was the dictation of some Norwegian or Danish translation. He died May 22, 1839. His "Poetical Remains," with a well-written and discriminating memoir of the author by Mr David Vedder, have been published in one volume.
Source: Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Men of Fife - Matthew Forster Conolly - 1866
Although listed as an Ironmonger (a term which often covered silversmiths and jewellers who also made and sold other lines of hardware etc.) in local directories, the jewellery trade of Robertson & Fraser must have been very large, considering the amount of stock that was stolen in c.1825, and mentioned in the above biography.
Mr. JAMES MACHALE, the Convener of the Gas and Water Committees of the Hamilton Corporation, died on the 6th inst. As the result of attending a water inspection which took place early last month, he had an attack of influenza, and congestion of the brain ensued. Mr. MacHale was a jeweller, and entered the Town Council of Hamilton in 1894, and in the same year was made a Magistrate. In 1895 he was appointed Convener of the Gas Committee, and held the position till his death. During his convenership, very considerable additions were made to the gasworks. As Convener of the Water Committee, be superintended the undertaking during the construction of the works recently completed for the introduction of the new water supply.
Source: The Journal of Gas Lighting, Water Supply & Sanitary Improvement - 14th February 1905
The Lease of that shop, No. 32 Nethergate, Dundee, lately occupied by the deceased Mr. William Hendersn, Watchmaker and Jeweller there. Stock in Trade therein, Shop Fittings, and the Good will of the Business, will be disposed of on a suitable offer being made.
Written and sealed offers for the above will be received by Messrs. Neish & Pattullo, Writers, No. 20 Reform Street, Dundee, up to the 24th instant, when the same will be opened and decided on.
All persons having claims against the late Mr. Henderson are requested by his representatives to lodge the same, duly vouched, in the hands of Messrs. Neish & Pattullo; and all Persons Indebted to Mr. Henderson are also requested by the representatives to make payment of the sums due to them to the said Neish & Pattullo.
SMITH - Suddenly, at 145, West Graham Street, on 12th inst., James Smith, jeweller, aged 52 years, husband of Agnes Gow; deeply regretted. - The only intimation.
Source: The Glasgow Herald - 13th November 1899
An advertisement likely connected with the above event which was published in The Glasgow Herald on the 24th November 1899:
