Abstract
Michael P. Cooper (41 Albany Road, Sherwood Rise, Nottingham NG7 7LX) writes: 'My earlier plea (GCG 5(6):232-234) for information on these dealers in minerals, fossils, shells, gems, etc. resulted in a reply from Steve Laurie of the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge who produced from the collection a copy of the catalogue of Wright Jnr's bankruptcy sale at Stevens, of Covent Garden, in 1888. This previously unremarked catalogue - Chalmers- Hunt (1976) makes no mention of it - sheds much light on Wright's business premises, listing, in addition to his stock, all of his shop fittings and office equipment down to his 'extra thick india-rubber doormat'. Professor W.J. Lewis of Cambridge bought...
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