RichardB Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 The number of the tusks brought to England is very large. In Sheffield alone it is stated that upwards of 45,000 tusks are annually consumed. The workers in ivory in that town are above 500 number and the value of the tusks is about £30,000 per annum. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=S9REAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT92&dq=tusks+brought+to+England&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGr9q_kNPnAhWEoXEKHTo3CH4Q6AEIMTAB#v=onepage&q=tusks brought to England&f=false Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 John Merrill & Co. Holly Street, picturesheffield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 If I remember right one of the monuments in the General Cemetery is for an ivory dealer, the monument includes tusks etc. Anyone know it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syrup Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 Looking through The 19th Century Newspaper archives i came across this. CAPTURE OF A BUFFALO IN SHEFFIELD . The Sheffield & Rotherham Independent (Sheffield, England), Wednesday, October 09, 1878. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syrup Posted July 26, 2011 Share Posted July 26, 2011 The Sheffield Independent, and Yorkshire and Derbyshire Advertiser (Sheffield, England), Saturday, October 19, 1833 Ivory Tusks, Ivory Handles, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Bankrupts London Gazette James Levick Sheffield, Ivory Merchant Dec 20 1836 James Wild Senr. Sheffield, Ivory Dealer & Merchant Aug 25 1837 =================================== T1HE Commissioners "in a Fiat in Bankruptcy, bearing date the 13th day of December 1836, awarded a,nd issueil -- forth against James Levick, of Sheffield, in tbe countyfof York, Ivory Merchant, Dealer and Chapman, intend to meet on the 2d day of June next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, at the Town-hall, in Sheffield, in tlie^county of York aforesaid, in order to Audit the Accounts of the Assignees of the estate and effects of the said bankrupt under th« said Fiat, pursuant to an Act of Parliament, made and passed in the sixth year of the reign of His late Majesty King'George. the Fourth, intituled " An Act to amend the laws relating to bankrupts ;" anil the said Commissioners also intend to meet on the same day, at twelve o'clock at noon, i at the • same place, in order to make a Dividend, of the estate and effects of the said bankrupt ; when and where the creditors, who have not already proved their debts, are to come prepared to prove the same, or they will be excluded the benefit of the said Dividend. London Gazette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Whites Wolstenholme, Francis, Ivory dealer (W.W.B.& Co.) Residing at 174 Broomspring Lane, in 1905. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Dissolution of partnerships 1821 Archard, J & Gurney E, Sheffield Ivory merchants The European Magazine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Sheffield ivory merchant, John Eyre - 1805 www.exeterfoundry.org.uk ========================= Battie William, ivory merchant and cooper, 5, Townhead street Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Sheffield ivory merchant, John Eyre - 1805 www.exeterfoundry.org.uk ============================ Battie William, ivory merchant and cooper, 5, Townhead street Baines 1822 Whites 1833 ============================= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 1902 Trade Directory West Lodge, 7 Claremont Place, James Edward Wing, Solicitor and Benjamin J Taylor, Ivory Merchant. rootsweb ancestry,com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Paul England Fisher, late of Sheffield, in the county of York, Ivory Merchant (who died on the 24th day of April, 1870) SH Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Marsden, Arthur Edwin ( ivory merchant). h.13 Grange Crescent Road, Sheffield Whites 1905. Marsden, Arthur Edwin ( Ivory merchant (Edwin & Sons)). h. 45 Edge Hill Road, Whites - 1911. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Whites 1857 Fisher Chas., ivory & bone mercht., Brown st.; h 260 Western bank Hall Saml. ivory & shell dealer & tortoise shell comb mfr. 262 Bright st. h Summer Hill, Sharrow Heathcote Chas., Ivory merchant, 56 Coalpit ln; h 12 Wilkinson st Horridge Wm. dealer in ivory and tortoise shell scales, Pool Works, 101 Fargate; h Northumberland road Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest burnisherboy Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 The Sheffield Independent, and Yorkshire and Derbyshire Advertiser (Sheffield, England), Saturday, October 19, 1833 Ivory Tusks, Ivory Handles, Thanks for the very interesting reference to the sale of ivory. Are there any trade candidates as bankrupts, partnership breakup's or deaths at this time? It would be nice to know who may been the original owner(s) of the stock. burnisherboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted September 23, 2011 Author Share Posted September 23, 2011 Thanks for the very interesting reference to the sale of ivory. Are there any trade candidates as bankrupts, partnership breakup's or deaths at this time? It would be nice to know who may been the original owner(s) of the stock. burnisherboy Check William Battie, Townhead Street - best match for year, Ivory merchant and dealer always going to be a bit of guesswork this one. [got to go, driving...] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Smiling-Knife Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 A photo of the Jos Rodgers & Sons stash circa very early 1900s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmund Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 In 1826, Mr.Henry Moorhouse, the Master, and Mr.William Sansom, the Senior Warden, with Mr.Hugh Parker, the leading magistrate, were deputed to convey a handsome present of Sheffield cutlery to the Duke of York. His Royal Highness, genially amused at the free and racy vernacular of the Senior Warden, affably engaged him in friendly conversation. Expressing curiosity as to the sources of Sheffield’s large consumption of ivory, the Duke was assured that the Cutlers “keep a pack of elephants, and grow us own ivory.” From R.E.Leader’s History of the Cutlers Company Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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