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Rundell, Bridge and Rundell—An Early Company History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Robert W. Lovett
Robert W. Lovett
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Harvard University
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Extract

What may well be one of the earliest company histories in English was recently presented to Baker Library by Mrs. Lydia Burgess Brownson, great-granddaughter of George Fox, who compiled the history.

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Business History Review , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , September 1949 , pp. 152 - 162
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1949

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References

1 The manuscript consists of fifty sheets, 9½″ × 15′, written on both sides, two columns to a page.

2 Carrington, John B. and Hughes, George R., The Plate of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths (Oxford, 1926)Google Scholar, mention several pieces presented to the company by John Bridge and his nephew. Jones, E. Alfred, Old Silver of England and America (Philadelphia, 1928)Google Scholar, describes candlesticks designed by Paul Storr and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

3 The D. N. B. states that two-guinea shares amounting to £23,998 were sold.

4 2d ed., revised and enlarged (Philadelphia, 1833), pp. 79-80.

5 Jones, E. Alfred, The Old Royal Plate in the Tower of London (Oxford, 1908)Google Scholar,

itemizes Rundell's bill:

Crown of state, 4,094£

2 ingots of gold, 95£

jewels, loan in crown, value 65,250£, at 10 percent, 10,875£ 1 Aug/20-1 Apr/22

further loan, 1 Apr/22-29 Apr/23 7,025£10s

jewels in circlet, 352 days, value 8,000£ 771£10s

repairs to crown 224£

pattern etc. 735£

loan, value 65,250 at 10 percent 6,525£

Circlet 290£

loan of brilliants for above 8,000 at 800£

king's globe 149£15s

crystals Queen Mary's sceptre 3£18s

gold sceptre (Kings) 127£10s

To old crown 15£10s

gold buckles—spurs 13£10s

2 clasps

The Gentleman's Magazine for 1823 (vol. ii, p. 77) lists some of the coronation expenses and indicates that Rundell, Bridge and Rundell's bill for snuffboxes to be given to foreign ministers was £8,205.15.

6 He was in his eightieth year and left personal property worth £400,000.

7 Carrington and Hughes, op. cit.

8 Fox himself.