Но все источники, что я видел, утверждают, что наименование
Mortimer & Hunt фирма использовала только с 1839 по 1844 год.
"В 1822 году Пол Сторр объединился с Джоном Мортимером. С этого времени начинается история крупнейшей английской фирмы XIX века—
Сторр & Мортимер, которая в результате смены партнеров с 1839 года стала называться
Мортимер & Хант, а с 1844 по 1865 год -
Хант & Роскелл.
К примеру
Storr & Mortimer
1822-1839
The firm of Storr & Mortimer was formed in 1822 when the celebrated silversmith Paul Storr entered into a partnership with John Mortimer.
Storr, one of the finest English silversmiths of the period, had left Rundell, Bridge & Rundell to set up his own workshop on Harrison Street near Clerkenwell in 1819. A couple of years later he went into business with John Mortimer who was succeeding the jewellery retail business of William Gray at 13 New Bond Street, thereby gaining a shop premises on the most fashionable street in London.
Under their agreement, Storr concentrated on the manufacture of goods for Mortimer to sell in the New Bond Street shop. Storr and Mortimer were now manufacturing and retail goldsmiths, jewellers and silversmiths with an influential clientele including Royalty and aristocracy no doubt attracted by the reputation that Storr had developed during his time with Rundell, Bridge & Rundell. Storr continued to make exceptional works in silver for both his own clients and also other firms such as Garrard.
In 1826 they took on an additional partner, John Samuel Hunt, who brought a welcome investment capital of £5,000 with him. In 1838 they moved to new premises at 156 New Bond Street settling in just prior to the retirement of Paul Storr at the end of December that same year. This prompted a name change to Mortimer and Hunt which the business operated under from 1839 until 1843 when John Mortimer retired and the name changed one again, this time to Hunt & Roskell. Please see our Hunt & Roskell biography for the continuation of this firm’s history.
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Hunt & Roskell (clockmaker/watchmaker; merchant/tradesman; British; Male; 1843 - c.1965)
Also known as
Hunt & Roskell; Hunt, John; Roskell, Robert
Address
156 New Bond Street, London W 26 Harrison St, nr Clerkenwell
Biography
Silversmiths and jewellers to Queen Victoria. Successors to Mortimer & Hunt on the retirement of John Mortimer.
Objects from this source are also in the holdings of the Dept of Asia. They were still trading by at least as late as 1876.
Hunt & Roskell, a firm of manufacturing and retail jewellers and silversmiths, was founded by Paul Storr in 1819, trading as Storr & Co. (1819-22), Storr & Mortimer (1822-38), Mortimer & Hunt (1838-43) and then Hunt & Roskell (1843-97). Hunt & Roskell had retail premises at 156 New Bond Street and a manufactory at 26 Harrison Street, near Clerkenwell. John Samuel Hunt, who had assisted Storr from the start, continued as a partner until his death in 1865, when he was succeeded by his son, John Hunt (d.1879). Robert Roskell, formerly a watchmaker and merchant of Liverpool, joined in 1844 and remained in the firm until his death in 1888. In 1889 the firm was taken over by J.W. Benson and continued in business as Hunt & Roskell Ltd until c.1965. Trade card in Heal Collection (Heal,67.383) advertises "Hunt & Roskell, Late Storr & Mortimer, Jewellers, Goldsmiths & Silversmiths to The Queen, The Emperor of the French, &c. &c. &c..." Heal's annotations on mount: "Britten's 'Clock & Watchmakers' gives: - Storr & Mortimer, 13, New Bond St. 1830-42. 1826-7 L. Directory gives: - Paul Storr, silversmith, 13, New Bond St. 1827 L. Directory gives: - Storr & Mortimer, gold & silversmiths, 13 New Bond St. 1832 L. Directory gives: - Storr & Mortimer, jewellers, 13 New Bond St. 1838 L. Directory gives: - Storr & Mortimer, silversmiths, 13 New Bond St. 1839 L. Directory gives: - Storr & Mortimer, silversmiths, manufactory, 13 Harrison St. 136 New Bond Street and manufactory, 26 Harrison Street, Gray's Inn Road."
Bibliography
Culme, J., 'The Directory of Gold and Silversmiths, Jewellers and Allied Traders 1838-1914', Woodbridge 1987
Thompson "Watches" London 2008
Bury, S., 'The Lengthening Shadow of Rundells', Connoisseur 161, February, March, April 1966
Loomes, B. (2006). "Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World", N.A.G. Press, London
Britten, F.J. (1986). "Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers - A History of Styles in Clocks and Watches and their Mechanisms", Bloomsbury Books, London
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