THE COLLECTIONS OF JANET & JACK THORNTON
Wednesday, 12 - Monday, 24 November 2025
A good Victorian coromandel dressing case by W. Leuchars, 38 Piccadilly, London* (makers to the Royal Family) with near complete sterling silver fittings, London 1852 by Frances Douglas**,
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Lot Details
with brass clashed edges and recessed handles, Brahman lock (no key). The upper level with eleven cut crystal bottles and boxes (some faults) with engraved silver lids, flanking two-level trays with metal instruments including a silver double ended teaspoon/half tsp, some absent. A lower drawer fitted for jewellery. Mirror from lid cavity absent. *Opened in 1794 Leuchars moved to 38 Piccadilly from number 47 in 1820 shortly before James Leuchars died in 1823. His widow continued the business and was awarded the Royal Warrant. The business expanded to neighbouring number 39 and after her death in 1847 the business went to her son William. They won prizes at the 1851 Great Exhibition, the 1862 International Exhibition and the 1867 and 1878 Paris Expositions. Leuchars subsequently opened in Paris in 1870. Asprey acquired the firm of Leuchars & Son in 1888, although the business traded until 1902. **The 1851 Census lists Frances Douglas aged 39 at 13 Saint James Street, London as a widow and working goldsmith and silversmith employing eight men and a boy. She was the wife of Archibald, who died young (1837), and the mother of Archibald John ( AJD 1864) and Samuel - all of them were silversmiths.
