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LAMBLEY, Abraham & Co.: Deritend (fl. 1800-18). Moseley Street; Bordeseley and Deritend Street (1809); Birchole Street (1816-18), Birmingham. Listed as a ‘Cabinet & Dressing Case Maker in General’ in Bisset’s A Poetic Survey Round Birmingham… accompanied by a Magnificent Directory. He is known to have made tea chests and caddies. Several members of family in same business (see below). 

LAMBLEY, James: Listed as manufacturer of ‘tea caddees, tea chests’ at Birchole Street; 33 Deritend Street, Birmingham, in Thomson & Wrightson’s New Triennial Directory of Birmingham, 1808.  

LAMBLEY, James & William (W. & A.): (fl. 1818-21). (Formerly Abraham Lambley and subsequently, 1822-1823, William & Abraham & Co.; taken over by Wagner & Cottrell, 1823). Cabinet- and case makers recorded at Birchall Street, 86 Caroline Street, and 10 New Street, St Paul’s Square, Birmingham (dates unclear). Traded as Advertised ‘Tea chests & caddees’ in Wrightson’s New Triennial Directory of Birmingham, 1818 and 1821. (The J. Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History) Trade card showing sarcophagus tea caddy, stating ‘BIRMINGHAM James & William Lambley successors to Abm. LAMBLEY & Co. Manufacturers of Writing Desks, Work Boxes, Liquor Bottle Cases, Ink Stands, Tea Chests & Caddees Shaving Cases, Toilet Cases Medicine Chests, Card Boxes, Knife Cases etc. Roller & Press Accompting House Copying Machines & Portable Desks with Copying Machines, &c. &c.’. (Birmingham Libraries & Archives; Chapter 5: Wood …, Figure 5.77)  

LAMMIE, Alex: (fl. 1820 – 40). Mauchline ware manufacturer, Cumnock, Scotland. Rectangular sycamore tea caddy (stained dark brown), c. 1840, with pen-and-ink reserve on lid depicting two fishermen; interior fitted with two lidded compartments; Mark ‘LAMMIE, CUMNOCK’ impressed on either side of lockplate. (Laurance Black, Edinburgh) 

LANDALL, Thomas: (fl. 1724- c. 1756). Cabinetmaker at Little Argyle Street, London. Mahogany tea chest with brass-inlaid decoration; stamped along top edge ‘T  LANDALL’. (C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840) Traded as LANDALL & GORDON, ‘Joyners, Cabinet, & Chair-Makers At ye Griffin & Chair in Little Argyle Street by Swallow Street’, London, during 1750s. Trade card card showing a bombé brass-inlaid tea ches, and stating ‘Makes all sorts of Tables, Chairs, Setee Beds, Looking-Glasses, Picture-frames, Window Blinds, & all sorts of Cabinet Work’. (Heal, pp. 93, 101; Private collection; Chapter 5: Wood …, Figure 5.54.) Mahogany chest with brass inlay, c. 1745, attributed to Landall & Gordon. (Private collection; Chapter 5: Wood …, Figure 5.53) 

LANE, Thomas: (fl. c. 1821-1855/56). Papier mâché manufacturer at Royal Papier Mâché Works, 91 Great Hampton Street, and 20 Upper Hockley Street, Birmingham. Papier mâché caddy, c. 1850, with painted and gilded decoration and hand-coloured transfer-print of river view applied to glass; base impressed ‘LANE. BIRM’. (J. Collins & Son, Bideford, Devon; Chapter 16: Papier mâché, Figure 16.31) 

LANGSTON, John: 72 Moland Street, Birmingham. Listed as a japanned tea caddy maker in History and General Directory of the Borough of Birmingham…Parish of Aston, the Soho and Part of Handsworth, Francis White & Co., 1849. 

LAWRENCE, Thomas: 37 Upper Temple Street, Birmingham. Listed as an ‘ivory, box, case and caddee maker’ in Wrightson’s Annual Directory of Birmingham, 1829-30. 

LEUCHARS: (1794-1837). Gold- and silversmiths, cabinet and case makers, and retailers at 38 Piccadilly, London. Trading as James Leuchars (1794-1823), Lucy Leuchars & Son (William) (1823-1847), and William Leuchars (1847-1888). Firm taken over by Aspreys in 1888. Rectangular rosewood tea chest, c. 1840, inlaid with mother-of-pearl borders; two canisters with hinged lids and well with cut-glass sugar bowl; well with label ‘L. LEUCHARS Writing and Dressing Case Maker 38 Piccadilly, LONDON Ink Stands, Chess Men, Tea Chests, Work Boxes’. (Christies, South Kensington, London, 11 July 2001, Lot 308). Listed as makers of tea chests and caddies in the Post Office Directory, London, 1838, 1840, 1843. Walnut tea chest with gothic-style brass mounts; two similarly-decorated canisters; label on base stamped ‘William Leuchars - Great Exhibition 1851’. (Fine Antique Boxes, London; Chapter 5: Wood …, Figure 5.105).  

LLOYD, John: Listed as ‘ivory, tortoiseshell & pearl toy, caddee, box & button maker’ at 19 Constitution Hill, Birmingham, in Wrightson & Webb’s The Directory of Birmingham, 1846.  

LLOYD, William: Listed as manufacturer of pearl and tortoiseshell tea caddies at 56½ Constitution Hill & Cecil Street, Birmingham, in Morris & Co‘s Commercial Directory & Gazeteer of Warwickshire with Birmingham, 1866, and as ‘Pearl, Tortoiseshell & Ivory Wrkrs. and ornament & Caddy maker[s]’ at 5 Buckingham Street, Birmingham, in Birmingham Trades Directory, 1873. 

LOADER & ATKINSON: (fl. 1816-20). Thomas Atkinson traded alone, 1820-1824.  Appraisers and auctioneers at 38 & 39 Ludgate Hill, London. Advertised opening of ‘extensive premises’ in The Times, 2 April 1816. Kingwood sarcophagus tea chest with curved sides; cast brass feet; rosewood ring handles; two canisters and glass sugar bowl; bases of wells for canisters with labels, one stating ‘MANUFACTURED BY LOADER and ATKINSON Cabinet Makers, 38 & 39, LUDGATE-HILL, LONDON, ADJOINING THE BELLE SAUVAGE INN’; the other with border stating ‘FUNERALS FURNISHED. CABINET & LOOKING GLASS MANUFACTURERS. Loader & Atkinson, UPHOLSTERERS. APPRAISERS. (& AUCTIONEERS). No 39 Ludgate Hill’. (Mark Goodger Antiques, Northamptonshire) 

LONDON, James: Cabinetmaker at Upper Maudlin Street (1827-39), and 81 Stoke’s Croft (from 1840 onwards), Bristol. Burr elm teapoy with four canisters and well for sugar bowl; label on base of compartment for one canister stating ‘J. LONDON Cabinet & Chair Maker Upholsterer UNDERTAKER 81 STOKES CROFT BRISTOL Picture Framer & Choice Fancy Goods’. (Tennants Fine Art Auctioneers, Yorks; Chapter 23: Teapoys …, Figure 23.36) 

LOUIS & MIER: ‘Merchants and factors’ in Edgbaston Street, Birmingham, and New York. Advertised as japanned tea caddy makers in the History and General Directory of the Borough of Birmingham … Parish of Aston, the Soho and Part of Handsworth, Francis White & Co., 1849, and as stockists of ‘tea chests’ in Wrightson & Webb’s The Birmingham Directory, 1849. 

LUCKETT, George: Listed as ‘Pearl, Tortoiseshell & Ivory Wrkrs. and ornament & Caddy maker[s]’ in Cecil Street, Birmingham, in Birmingham Trades Directory, 1873. 

LUCKETT, John: Listed as ‘Pearl, Tortoiseshell & Ivory Wrkrs. and ornament & Caddy maker[s]’ in Cecil Street, Birmingham, in Birmingham Trades Directory, 1873. 

LUND, Thomas: (fl. 1804-45). Case maker and cutler at 56 & 57 Cornhill, London. Succeeded by son William after his death in 1845. William had establsihed own business in Fleet Street in 1835, and ran both firms until his death in 1872, when his son Charles took over. Described as ‘Cutler & Manufacturer of Pens and Quills’ in The Post Office London Directory, 1810, and a ‘Filtering Machine Maker & Stone Importer’ in Pigot & Co.’s Metropolitan Directory, 1827. Rectangular tortoiseshell tea chest with canted corners, c. 1830; ivory bun feet; two canisters; engraved on lockplate ‘LUND, CORNHILL LONDON’; interior of body and lid banded in ivory, engraved either side of lock plate ‘LUND MAKER 56 & 57 CORNHILL LONDON’. (Christies South Kensington, London, October 2006). Tortoiseshell tea chest, c. 1830; silver stringing with narrow band of ivory around base; silver plaque engraved with coat of arms on lid; silver escutcheon and hinges; lockplate engraved ‘LUND Cornhill LONDON’; pressed brass feet; two canisters and cut-glass sugar bowl. (Private collection). Tortoiseshell tea caddy, c. 1840, impressed ‘LUND CORNHILL’; ivory finial on lid. (Private collection; Chapter 11: Tortoiseshell, Figures 11.19, 11.22).   

Other examples of similar tea chests and caddies stamped by Lund are known. 

LYSTER, Charles: Listed as manufacturer of tortoiseshell tea caddies at 9 Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, in Francis White & Co.’s, History and General Directory of the Borough of Birmingham … Parish of Aston, the Soho and Part of Handsworth, 1849; 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, and as ‘Pearl, Tortoiseshell & Ivory Wrkrs. and ornament & Caddy maker[s]’ at 8 ½ Spencer Street, Birmingham, in Birmingham Trades Directory, 1873. Advertised as Charles Lyster & Son, ‘Manufacturers of pearl & tortoiseshell tea caddies, work boxes, card cases, scent, spectacle and thimble cases; ladies’ companions, albums, folios, inkstands, card boxes, etc.’ in Hulley’s Birmingham Directory, 1876-77.