Catalogue description Joseph Rodgers and Sons Ltd of Sheffield, records

This record is held by Sheffield City Archives

Details of LD 2011
Reference: LD 2011
Title: Joseph Rodgers and Sons Ltd of Sheffield, records
Description:

Joseph Rodgers and Sons Ltd, cutlers. A small collection of correspondence saved when the records were destroyed in the 1930s. Some are photocopies only, the originals having been sold for their postal interest. (Purchase 1973).

 

Records including:

 

Letters and orders transmitted by John Rodgers, traveling for the firm (W. Riding and Lancashire) 1818-1819.

 

Letters and orders from customers in Britain, some relating to shipment of American orders. 1817-1819, 1840-1851.

 

Letter and orders from customers overseas (U.S.A., W. Indies, India, S. America, Germany, Russia) 1824-1853 (including legal business re counterfeit of firm's labels in New York 1843).

 

London; agent's letters, stock sold. etc. 1831, 1840-1842.
Date: 1817-c1979
Held by: Sheffield City Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Joseph Rodgers and Sons Ltd, cutlers, of Sheffield
Physical description: 2 boxes
Subjects:
  • Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire

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