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Add MS 54574
- Record Id:
- 032-001960137
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001960137
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000055.0x000065
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 54574
- Title:
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LOCKER NOTEBOOK: memorandum book, partly of William Locker (circa 1797-1859), last manager of the old china factory, Derby; circa 1808-1851. Ink and pencil. Included are recipes for colours and glazes, lists of stock, prices of colours, etc., accounts, medical recipes and personal memoranda. The volume was used by an earlier owner, chiefly for recipes for colours and glazes: for a dated entry in this hand, 23 Feb. 1809, see f. 64. The earliest dated entry, 3 Oct. 1808, is in a third hand, f. 74. Locker's hand is identified by an initialled copy letter on ff. 68v-69. The earliest and latest dated entries in Locker's hand are
23 Aug. 1843 (f. 13) and 7 Jan. 1851 (f. 62). Table of contents and contemporary pagination and foliation by Locker. The Bemrose papers, a large collection of documents relating to the Derby porcelain factory, are held by the Department of Medieval and Later Antiquities at the British Museum. For an account of the factory and the workers there, see J. Haslem, The Old Derby China Factory (1876), republished with new foreword by A. L. Thorpe (1973). Christie's sale-cat. 18 Dec. 1968, lot 28. Purchased 11 Jan. 1969.
Paper; ff. ii+76. 19th cent. pagination, becoming foliation from old f. 40, 1-97 from f. 2. The following are missing: old pp. 26-27, 38-39, old ff. 42, 52, 53, 88. 83 x 110mm. Original brown calf binding, worn, brass catch.
- Scope & Content:
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Ceramics: Commonplace Books: Accounts: Recipes: Medicine and Surgery: Derby, Derbyshire: William Locker, manager of the Derby china factory: Notebook conc. the Derby china factory: circa 1808-1851.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001960137
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-001960137
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1803
- End Date:
- 1851
- Date Range:
- c 1808-1851
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Locker, William, manager of the Derby china factory
- Places:
- Derby, Derbyshire