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List of Makers and Retailers

TAYLOR, John: Cabinetmaker and upholsterer at 27 High Street, Colchester, Essex. Mahogany sarcophagus teapoy, c. 1830, on square pillar and quadripartite stand; four canisters and two wells for sugar bowls; label in one well stating ‘J. TAYLOR, CABINET MAKER, UPHOLSTERER, APPRAISER & AUCTIONEER, No. 27 High Street, Colchester.’ (Du Mouchelles auctions, Detroit, USA) 

TAYLORS & PERRY: Advertised as ‘Working Gold & Silversmiths, Jewellers, Tortoiseshell & Ivory Box, Gilt & General Toy Manufacturers’ in Newhall Street, Birmingham, in Wrightson’s New Triennial Directory of Birmingham, 1815. Also had premises in London. (Birmingham Libraries & Archives; Chapter 11: Tortoiseshell, Figure 11.8). Listed under ‘Tortoiseshell and Ivory Box, Caddee, &c. Makers’ in Wrightson’s Triennial Directory of Birmingham, 1823. 

TETSELL, Thomas C.: Listed as ‘Tortoise Shell, Pearl & Ivory Work Box, Tea Caddy &c. Manufacturer[s]’ at 38A Darwin Street, Birmingham, in Hulley’s Directory of Birmingham, 1870. 

THOMPSON, J. & H.: (fl. 1821-1827). Fancy goods retailers and stationers etc. at 1 Wellington Street, Strand, London. Listed as ‘Ornamental Drawing Warehouse’ in Robson’s London Directory, 1821, 1823; as ‘Mapsellers &c.’ in the Post Office London Directory, 1822; and as a ‘Medallion Water Warehouse’ in Pigot & Co.’s Metropolitan Directory, 1827.Sarcophagus tea caddy, c.1821-23, with curvilinear sides and penwork decoration of Scottish landscapes; two compartments, one with label on base ‘SOLD AT J.& H. THOMPSON, NO.1 Wellington Street, Leading to Waterloo Bridge’. (Private collection)   

THORN: Turner and small furniture maker ‘At Thorn’s Cricket Bat, Turnery, and Patten Warehouse, At the Beehive and Patten, in John-Street, Oxford Market’, London. Trade card, 1764, includes tea chests in long list of articles sold. (Heal, pp. 181, 183) 

THORNE, Edward (1747-86): Cabinet- and chairmaker in Bedlam Street, Norwich; from 1782, in partnership with Robert Leverington ‘Next Door to the Rampant Horse, St Stephen’ (4 St Stephen’s Churchyard). Supplied furniture, including a tea chest (at a cost of 7 shillings), ‘to Parson Woodforde, Rector of Weston Longville, Norfolk, June 1776. (DEFM, and John Stabler, ‘Dictionary of Norfolk Furniture Makers’, The Regional Furniture Society, 2006) 

TIFFEN, William: (fl. 1847-1856). Bookseller, stationer and librarian in Kingsbridge Street, Folkstone, Kent. Advertised ‘the beautiful [Tunbridge] wares of George Wise of Tunbridge’ (see entry for WISE), including tea caddies, in his guide book, Excursions from Folkestone, Sandgate and Hythe, Simpkins Marshall & Co., London & Folkestone, 1853. 

T[H]OMPSON: Family of jewellers and manufacturers of items, including tea chests and caddies made in ivory and tortoiseshell at 123 Great Hampton Street, Birmingham. Joseph Thompson advertised as an ‘ivory, toy and caddee maker’ in Pye’s Birmingham Directory, 1797. Ann Thompson & Son advertised as ‘Ivory toy maker[s]’ in Chapman’s Birmingham Directory, 1803. Thomas T[h]ompson advertised as an ‘Ivory toy maker’ in Chapman’s Annual Directory of Birmingham,1808, and as a ‘silver, ivory and tortoiseshell manufacturer’ in Wrightson’s New Triennial Directory for Birmingham of the same year; advertised tea caddies in both ‘Turtle’ and ‘Tortoiseshell’ in Wrightson’s New Triennial Directory for Birmingham, 1815, (Birmingham Libraries and Archives; Chapter 11: Tortoiseshell, Figure 11.7); listed under ‘Tortoiseshell and Ivory Box, Caddee, &c. Makers’ in Wrightson’s Triennial Directory of Birmingham, 1823; offered ‘Articles in Turtle, Tortoiseshell & Ivory’, including ‘Tea caddees and chests’, in Wrightson & Webb’s The Directory of Birmingham, 1833, 1835 and 1846, and in Pigot & Co.’s New and Complete Directory of Birmingham and its Environs, 1842-3. Casket-shaped tea caddy, c. 1835, inlaid with incised mother-of-pearl decoration and stamped ‘TOMPSON BIRM’ on the base. (Private collection). A number of ivory and tortoiseshell tea caddies are known with hinges stamped ‘T[H]OMPSON’. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Chapter 11: Tortoiseshell, Figure 11.6)  

TOMPSON & CHAMBERS: Listed as ‘Jewellers & tortoiseshell, ivory & box case & caddee makers’ at 109 Great Hampton Street Birmingham, in Wrightson’s Triennial Directory of Birmingham, 1829-30.  

TONGUE, William: Listed as retailer of tortoiseshell and wooden tea chests at 22 High Street, Birmingham, in Wrightson’s New Triennial Directory of Birmingham, 1812. 

TOOKE, William: (fl. 1860-65). Label on tortoiseshell caddy, c. 1860, inlaid with mother-of pearl, stating ‘W.H. TOOKE Goldsmith Jeweller MANUFACTURER OF DESKS, DRESSING CASES WORK BOXES &c.’. Outer border stating ‘OLD POST OFFICE BUILDINGS, LIVERPOOL’. (Private collection; Chapter 11: Tortoiseshell, Figure 11.27) 

TORBER (or TORBET), John: Cabinetmaker in the Strand, London. Advertisement for sale of stock-in-trade, including tea caddies, in the Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 5 January 1779.  

TRIMBEY & BELL [& HOWARD]: ‘Wholesale Toymen’ in ‘Cannon-street, or 22, St. Martin's-lane London’, London. Account books of London wholesale merchant, James Douglas, record exportation to North American merchants of tea caddies made by Trimbey & Bell between 1784 and1792. (Information from John Fleming and Hugh Honour, The Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts, Allen Lane, London, 1977, p. 95) 

TROTTER, William: (1772-1833). Cabinetmaker in Edinburgh, Scotland. Supplied a pair of rosewood teapoys to Sir Duncan Campbell of Barcaldine for ‘the large front drawing room’ in his house at No. 3 Moray Place, Edinburgh, in about 1825. (Francis Bamford, ‘A Dictionary of Edinburgh wrights and furniture makers 1660-1840’, Furniture History Society Journal, Vol. XIX, 1983, Appendix I, contributed by Ian Gow, p. 131) 

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TUCKER & BRAITHWAITE: (fl. 1767-1772). Cabinetmakers and upholsterers in High Holborn, London. Mahogany bombé chest, c. 1770; three tinplate canisters; worn label on base stating ‘Tucker and Braithwaite Upholders and Cabinetmakers … Holborn London … Appraisers and Funerals Furnished’. (Collection of the late Calvert Wardley, Phillips (Auctioneers), London, 27 November 1984)  

TUNBRIDGE WELLS MANUFACTURING COMPANY: Tunbridge ware makers at 128-30 Camden Road, Tunbridge Wells. Catalogue of ‘ROYAL TUNBRIDGE WARE’ featuring tea caddies and other items, c. 1925. (Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery; Chapter 6: Tunbridge Ware, Figure 6.37) 

TURLEY: Papier mâché manufacturer in Birmingham. Displayed tea chest and tea caddy at Great Exhibition, London, 1851. 

TURNLEY (TURNLY), John Samuel: (fl. 1803-1829). Cabinetmaker, upholsterer and fancy chair maker at Garden Row, London Road, Southwark, London. At No. 1 (1805-7); at 1 & 2 (1812); 6 & 34 (1817); trading as J. Turnley & Co. at No. 1 (1820); as Turnley & Sons at No.1 (1826-9). Trade card showing furniture dating from c. 1825-50 stating ‘I. TURNLEY & SONS, Wholesale Manufactory FOR Solid & Imitation Rosewood, Zebra, Mahogany & other Sofas, Chairs, Bedsteads, Bed Pillars, Mattresses, Writing Desks, Tea Caddies, Looking Glasses & every description of CABINET FURNITURE, GARDEN ROAD, SOUTHWARK, London. Mahogany and Veneer Merchants.’ (DEFM) 

TURRILL, John: Case maker and retailer at 250 Regent Street, London. Large coromandel bombé chest, c. 1860, with domed lid; inlaid with brass and mother-of-pearl; bun feet; two canisters and well with cut-glass sugar bowl; marked ‘J. TURRILL Dressing & Writing Case MAKER 250 REGENT STREET. (The Lord Constantine Collection, Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh, 12 October 2007, Lot 577) 

TYRRELL, Louisa (also FIELDER): (fl. 1827-62). Fancy stationer (retailer) at the ‘Emporium of Fancy’, 2 Greek Street, Soho, London. Listed as Louisa Fielder, proprietor of an Artist’s Repository, in Pigot & Co.’s Metropolitan Alphabetical Directory, 1827 and 1828; as Louisa Tyrrell in various trade directories from 1830 until 1862. Sarcophagus penwork tea caddy, c. 1830, with curvilinear sides; label on base, with outer border stating ‘Newman’s superfine colours. Please to Address in the name of Tyrrell’; middle border stating ‘Prints & Drawings Framed & Glazed. Drawings &c. Lent to Copy’; inner border stating ‘Sold at LOUISA TYRRELL’s Widow of the late G. FIELDER. Emporium of Fancy, 2 Greek Street’, Soho. Every Material for Ladies Fancy Work’. (Private collection; Chapter 9: Penwork, Figure 9.11). Sarcophagus penwork chest, c. 1840, with Chinese-style decoration; two canisters and well for sugar bowl; identical label to above on base. (Colefax & Fowler, London; Chapter 9: Penwork, Figure 9.12)