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EDWARDS, David: (fl.1813-1848). Case maker at 21 King Street, Bloomsbury Square, and 84 St James’s Street, London (1813-14), and at 5 Orange Street (1817-1848). Sarcophagus kingwood and mahogany tea chest, c. 1830, on brass ball feet; two canisters and cut-glass sugar bowl; label on base of compartment for right canister stating ‘D. EDWARDS maker 21 King Str., Holborn’. (Private collection). Bill dated 18 December 1832 to John Arkwright, Hampton Court, Leominster, Herefordshire, for rosewood tea chest, price £4-4s. (DEFM). 

ELLIOTT, Charles (1752-1832): Cabinetmaker and upholsterer at 96 New Bond Street, London. Traded as ‘Davis & Elliott’ from 1774; listed as such in Lowndes London Directory, 1775. Sole proprietor in 1783; after 1805 traded as ‘Elliott Son & Francis’. Appointed ‘Royal Cabinetmaker and Upholsterer’ in 1783. (DEFM) In 1790, supplied Princess Elizabeth with ‘A box made for fillegree work with Ebony mouldings, lock & key, lined inside & outside’ and ‘A Tea Caddie to correspond with box’, each costing 12 shillings. Also, ‘A small packing Case’ for tea caddy’, 1 shilling, and ‘15 oz of different colour fillegree paper’, at 31s. 10d. and ‘1 oz of Gold (filigree paper) at 2s. 6d.’. (Bill books, Lord Chamberlain’s Dept, Vol. LC11/2, Quarter ending 5 Jan 1791, account No. 70. National Archives, Kew)