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ACKERMANN, Rudolph (1764-1834): Artists’ Repository; operated from 1797 onwards as ‘The Repository of Arts’ at 101 Strand, London. Between 1829 and 1855 run by sons, George (1803-91), and Ferdinand (1813-c.1865), trading as Rudolf Ackermann & Co. Firm sold art and craft materials, as well as Tunbridge ware and whitewood items to decorate, including tea chests and caddies; also sold designs for penwork caddies. By 1800, activities included manufacture of watercolour paints, a drawing school, copper-plate printing, the sale of Old Masters and watercolour paintings, and the publication of prints and illustrated books. From January 1809, published monthly magazine, The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics. (Chapters 3: Making …, 6: Tunbridge Ware and 9: Penwork) 

ADDERLEY, Samuel: ‘Tortoiseshell, ivory box & case & caddee maker’, at 3 Court, Branstone Street., Birmingham, (Wrightson’s Annual Directory of Birmingham, 1829-30, Wrightson’s The Directory of Birmingham, 1833.) Advertised papier mâché tea caddies (Pigot & Co.’s New and Complete Directory of Birmingham and its Environs, 1841-3). 

ALDERMAN, S.: Jeweller, silversmith, cutler, etc.; established 1795; traded at 41-42 Barbican and 16 Norton Folgate, London. Stock included: ‘Rosewood and Mahogany Writing Desks, Tea Chests and Tea Caddies, of a superior quality at reduced prices’, (Pigot’s London Directory, 1840). 

ALEXANDER, John: (fl. 1776-93); ‘Turner in Ivory and Hard Wood … At the Elephant and Coffee-Mill, in Crooked Lane, near the Monument’, London; trade label lists ‘Tea Chests’ as one of over 70 items offered for sale. (Heal, pp. 2,4).  

ALLEN, James T.: Listed as ‘Pearl, Tortoiseshell & Ivory Wrkrs. and ornament & Caddy maker[s]’ at 16 Mott Street, Birmingham, in Birmingham Trades Directory, 1873. 

ALLGOOD: Family of japanners in Pontypool from late 1720s onwards, and later at Usk too (for details, see Chapter 15: Japanned Metal). Advertisements in The Times, London, 15, 20, 22 April 1795, for auction of stock-in-trade of Thomas Allgood (1727-79) on dissolution of firm trading in Pontypool as Allgood, Davies and Edwards, listed: ‘A large assortment of Tea and other Trays, Waiters, Jugs …Tea pots and caddies, Urns and Biggins’  

ARMY & NAVY STORES: Department store in Victoria Street, London; founded 1871 as co-operative society for benefit of military officers and their families. Sold range of fancy goods, including plain and decorative tea chests and caddies.  

ASHER BARNARD: ‘Wholesale Hardwareman and Dealer in all kinds of Birmingham, Sheffield and London Goods’, at 173 Fore Street, Exeter; sold: ‘Fenders and Fire-Irons: Brooms and Brushes; Papier-Mâché and Iron Tea Trays, Bread baskets, Waiter, etc.; Mahogany and Rosewood Writing Desks, Dressing Cases, Work Boxes, and Tea Caddies …’. (Advertisement in Billing’s Directory of Devon, 1857). 

AUSTIN, George: Cabinet- and case maker at 6 & 7 St Andrew’s Street, Dublin, Ireland. Mahogany campaign tea and decanter chest, c. 1850, with brass mounts; lock stamped ‘AUSTIN DUBLIN’, with lockplate stamped ‘AUSTIN ST ANDREW ST DUBLIN’; six compartments, four containing glass decanters, and two central containing wooden tea canister and cut-glass sugar bowl; paper label on base for ‘AUSTIN’S DRESSING CASE MANUFACTORY’, at 6 & 7 ST Andrew Street, Dublin’. (Christopher Clarke Antiques, Stow-on-the-Wold; Chapter 5: Wood …, Figure 5.106)   

AUSTIN, George: ‘Writing Desk, Dressing Case, Bagatelle Board, and Fancy Cabinet Manufacturer’, at 158 Hope Street, Glasgow, Scotland; advertised: ‘Coromandel, Mahogany and Rosewood, Work Tables, Work Boxes. Jewel Cases, Tea Caddies, Chests and Backgammon Boards etc.’. (Post Office Annual Directory of Glasgow, 1853-4, and the Post Office Directory of Glasgow 1857-58)