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GEORGE KING BIRD,
MANUFACTURER OF Electro-plated Spoons, Forks, &c., (THE ONLY SUBSTITUTE FOR SILVER,)
47, WESTBOURNE GROVE,
BAYSWATER, LONDON, W.
G. K. BIRD begs to call special attention to his modern and superior Stock of Serviceable and Ornamental ELECTRO-PLATE, comprising Biscuit Boxes, Butter Coolers, Cake and Sugar Baskets, Dessert Dishes, Flower Vases, Breakfast, Cruet, and other Frames, Claret Jugs, Cups and Goblets, Spoons and Forks, Tea Services, Waiters, &c., &c., all of the BEST QUALITY and at MODERATE PRICES.
Councillor Harry A. Farbey, a director of the London silversmithing firm of C.S. Farbey Ltd., was elected Mayor of the London Borough of Southgate on 26th May. He has been a member of the council since 1958 and served as chairman of the Highways and Accident Prevention Committees.
Now aged 42 and married, with two sons aged 9 and 11, Mr. Farbey joined the family business in 1938; it was founded by his father, Mr. C.S. Farbey in 1924.
PHILLIP, JOEL AND SON, Jewellers and silversmiths, 14, Petherton-road, London. December 9th, 1892. Debts by Joel Phillips, at 131, Mildmay-road, Canonbury.
Source: The Watchmaker, Jeweller and Silversmith - 1st April 1893
Mr. Thomas Pickford, of 178, Upper-street, Islington, jeweller, was summoned before Mr. Barker by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, for having unlawfully sold a gold chain, weighing 2 oz. or 12 dwts., on the 11th of August, he only holding a licence to deal in gold plate under 2 oz.
The representative of the Board stated that the prosecution was based upon the interpretation of the 5th section of the Act, that goods
sold for gold or silver were to be deemed to be so.
Mr. Powell, on behalf of the Inland Revenue Office, appeared for the prosecution, and called an officer who had purchased the chain, to prove that the chain was over 2 oz.
Mr. John Layton, who appeared for the defendant, said that his client contended that he was permitted by the 30th and 31st Vict., cap. 90, sec. 1, to sell any articles which contained less than 2 oz. of gold by virtue of his licence, and that the Act meant pure gold, and not a mixture of gold and base metals. He referred the magistrate to a recent decision in a similar case, which was heard before the Louth magistrates in August last, and called Mr. Wells, from Messrs. Buller and Hutchinson, of Bartlett's-buildings, the makers of the chain, and Mr. Marshman, of Clerkenwell-green, a working jeweller, to prove that there was not 2 oz. of gold in the chain. Both witnesses deposed to its being an 18-carat chain, and that it contained 1 oz. 19 dwt. of pure gold and 13 dwt. of alloy, not gold, and that the price charged (£14) was fair and reasonable.
The magistrate said that he was of opinion that the defendant had not infringed his licence, and dismissed the summons.
Notice is hereby given that the business formerly carried on under the name of John Page, at 195-7, Stanhope Street, London, N.W.I, by the late John William Page, has been sold by the Midland Bank Executor & Trustee Co. Ltd., the executors of his Will, to Page J. (Silversmiths) Ltd. The said business will, as from the 25th day of March, 1936, be carried on at the same address by Page J. (Silversmiths) Ltd., who will be solely liable for all contracts, engagements and liabilities of the said business entered into, undertaken or accepted after that date.— Dated this 26th day of March,. 1936.
WARMINGTONS, 141, Moorgate. E.C.2.
Solicitors for the Midland Bank Executor & Trustee Co. Ltd. and for Page J. (Silversmiths) Ltd.
Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting -between us, the undersigned, Ernest Hayward and Alfred Richard Ellinthorpe Sintzenich, carrying on business as Jewellers and Gold and Silversmiths, at 77, Jermyn-street, London, S.W. 1, under the style or firm of HAYWARD
AND SINTZENICH, has been dissolved by mutual consent as from the 22nd day of February, 1923. All debts due and awing to or by the said late firm will
be received or paid by the said Alfred Richard Ellinthorpe Sintzenich.—As witness our hands this twenty-second day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.
A. R. E. SINTZENICH.
ERNEST HAYWARD.
Source: The London Gazette - 2nd March 1923
Hayward & Sintzenich were established in 1853. The business was acquired in 1941 by two former employees, Louis Hopkins and Llewellyn William Jones and became Hopkins & Jones Ltd. They are still in business today, with premises at 7, William IV Street, London. In 2019 they acquired the old established pawn-broking business of Suttons and Robertsons, founded by Thomas Miller Sutton in 1770.
In 1960 the directors of Hopkins & Jones Ltd. were noted as L.J.W. Jones and C.G. Denman, with an address of 8-9, Regency House, 1-4, Warwick Street, London W1.
Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, John Thomas Cadell Bevis and William Charles Day, as Gold and Silversmiths and General Mounters, carrying on business at No. 12, Red Lion-square, in the county of Middlesex, under the style or firm of Bevis and Day, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due to and owing by the said partnership will be received and paid by the said William Charles Day, who will henceforth carry on the said business in his own name and on his own account. — Dated the 17th day of January, 1879.
J. T. C. Bevis.
W. C. Day.
Source: The London Gazette - 21st January 1879
Bevis & Day entered their mark, 'JB/WD' incuse, with the London Assay Office on the 25th September 1876.
Notice is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between John William Johnson, of 32, Emperors-gate, South Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, and Alfred Springthorpe, of Fairview, Bounds Green, in the said county, carrying on business as Manufacturing Gold and Silversmiths, at No. 20, Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell, in the said county, has been dissolved, by mutual consent, as from the 17th day of January last.—Dated this 14th day of March, 1885.
J. W. Johnson.
A. Springthorpe.