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List of Makers and Retailers

KAVANAGH, Francis J.: Listed as ‘Tortoise Shell, Pearl & Ivory Work Box, Tea Caddy &c. Manufacturer[s]’ at 38 ½ Cecil Street, Birmingham, in Hulley’s Directory of Birmingham, 1870. 

KEMP, J.: Wolverhampton. ‘Manufacturing Jeweller, Silversmith, &c.’; advertised tortoiseshell tea caddies at their ‘General Depot of Elegant and Useful Fancy Goods Suitable for Wedding, Christening, Birthday, and Complimentary Presents’ in Harrison, Harrod & Co.’s Directory of Staffordshire, 1861. 

KENDALL, J. & Son: Turners and manufacturers at 15 High Street, 15 Bull Ring, 15 Lombard Street, and 17 New Street, Birmingham; with warehouses at No. 61 Lord Street, Liverpool, at 447 West Strand, London, at 35 Market Street, Manchester, and at 18 Foregate Street, Worcester. Advertised as ‘JOS. KENDALL & SON No. 15 Bull Ring, two doors from Moor Street Birmingham IVORY, BONE AND WOOD TURNERS Manufacturers of … tea caddees’ in Ward & Price’s New Birmingham Directory, 1823. Advertisement for ‘Toy-warehouse’ from Wrightson’s Triennial Directory of Birmingham, 1823. (Birmingham Libraries and Archives; Chapter 3: Making …, Figure 3.11). Firm listed at 15 Lombard Street as manufacturers of ‘Tea caddees’, in Wrightson’s Triennial Directory of Birmingham, 1825. Firm advertised ‘At the Civet Cat No.17 New St. Birmingham and 18 Foregate Street Worcester Manufacturers of Tea Chests’ in Wrightson’s Annual Directory of Birmingham, 1829-30. Listed at 49 Lombard Street & 27 New Street in Wrightson’s The Directory of Birmingham, 1833. 

KENNETT, Robert and KIDD, William: (fl. 1766-1795). Cabinetmakers at 67 New Bond Street, London. Stock-in-trade on dissolution of partnership, 20 October 1795, sold by Christie’s; catalogue listed ‘A large mahogany tea chest with tea and sugar glasses £4-6-0’; ‘A large mahogany tea chest with 2 tea caddies and a blue sugar glass £4-4-0’; ‘A real satinwood tea caddie’; ‘An inlaid tea caddie’; ‘A very beautiful mahogany tea chest with 2 tea caddies and a blue sugar glass’, ‘A yew tree tea caddee’; ‘A large elegant tea chest composed of different woods, with 2 tea caddies and a blue sugar glass’.  

KIRK, William: (fl. c. 1750). Cabinetmaker ‘At the Sign of the Golden Chair, the Corner of Salisbury Street in ye Strand, London’. Trade card showing tea chest. (Heal, pp. 90, 100) 

KNIGHT, Joseph: (1786-1794). Tunbridge ware maker in Tunbridge Wells. Oval harewood tea caddy with floral marquetry on top and sides, c. 1790, with label stating ‘Joseph Knight Tunbridge-Ware Maker to Her Majesty Tunbridge-Wells’ (Woolley and Wallis Salisbury Salerooms; Chapter 6: Tunbridge Ware, Figures 6.3a and b)