J.C. Vickery THE ROCKS stamp dispenser identified
J.C. Vickery THE ROCKS stamp dispenser identified
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Does anyone out there know what this game is? It's called THE ROCKS and has a manufacturer's name plate for J.C. Vickery, Regent Street, London.
Does anyone out there know what this game is? It's called THE ROCKS and has a manufacturer's name plate for J.C. Vickery, Regent Street, London.
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J.C. Vickery THE ROCKS
I think it is probably not a game. The form suggests the function - of stamp dispensing. Compare it to this one from Coventry auction 2011.
The interwebs tell me that J C Vickery was John Collard Vickery, "an important and successful player in the retail side of the gold and silversmithing business in the early 20th century."
They even made a Rare And Amusing Edwardian Period Oak Roulette/Games Table
The interwebs tell me that J C Vickery was John Collard Vickery, "an important and successful player in the retail side of the gold and silversmithing business in the early 20th century."
http://www.christiandaviesantiques.co.u ... n-770.htmlCollard and his then partner, Arthur Thomas Hobbs, bought up the long established business of William Griggs, a stationer and bookseller at 183, Regent Street in c.1890 and expanded the stock to include jewellery, dressing cases, gold and silver lines.
The partnership with Hobbs was a short lived one and was dissolved in 1891. Now on his own, Vickery went from strength to strength expanding the Regent Street premises to include, at first, No.181 and then No.179 by the year 1900. He went on to obtain the royal warrants of HM the King, HM the Queen, HM Queen Alexandra, TRH the Prince and Princess of Wales, HM the King of Portugal, HM the King of Spain, TM the King and Queen of Denmark, HM the Queen of Norway, HM the King of Sweden and the Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig Holstein.
A move further up Regent Street to No’s 145/147, in 1925, was forced by the expiration of the leases on the original premises. The move along with the depression in the 1920s and Vickery’s advancing years all contributed to the firm being declared bankrupt in 1930.
John Collard Vickery died aged 75 on the 19th August 1930. What was left of the business fell into the hands of James Walker Ltd.
John Culme in his ‘Directory of Gold & Silversmiths’ relates a nice story regarding Vickery: Shortly before his death, the late G. S. Saunders of James Walker Ltd., told me that J. C. Vickery’s business reached the height of its success before the First World War. Vickery, who would travel each day from Streatham to Regent Street in his own carriage, stopped his coachman one day in order to examine a leaf on the drive outside his house. Stepping down from the vehicle he picked up the leaf to pin to it a note. As he continued his journey his gardeners were astonished to read ‘Why has this leaf been here for two days?’
They even made a Rare And Amusing Edwardian Period Oak Roulette/Games Table
Re: J.C. Vickery THE ROCKS stamp dispenser identified
The machine won't be called "The Rocks" but the hotel or commercial establishment it was located in was. I've seen quite a few counter top post boxes that were labelled similarly with the name of the location.
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Re: J.C. Vickery THE ROCKS stamp dispenser identified
As these were almost always found in hotels I had a search, of course, the venue has more than likely closed down years ago but there is just one candidate that is old enough to have been the original home of this dispenser. The Rocks Hotel, Dunbar...but it a bit of a long shot
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