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Tortoiseshell - A Specialty of Mincing Lane
ARCHIVAL ITEMS
newspaper cutting
The Public Ledger
Europe: United Kingdom
1932-11-12
newsprint
overall: 522 mm x 375 mm

Four-column feature article about the firm of Messrs Hale & Son of 10 Fenchurch Avenue, one of the oldest tortoiseshell brokers in London and mentioning the firm of M. Myers Tortoiseshell Ltd of Tower Hill. Includes information on the Greenback, Loggerhead and Hawksbill turtles, places of origin, method of capture, preservation and shipping, brokerage process at the docks, principal markets and brief description of the auctions held four times a year in Mincing Lane. Also a two-column advertisement for the aforementioned company M. Myers.


1998.255

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