Sampson mordan inventor picture

Inventor of the propelling radiate and maker of jewellery, have available Belfast Chambers, Beak Street, Ruler Street, London, W. (1922)

of 41 City Road, London, EC1.

(1929)

• 1815 Sampson Mordan
• 1822 make available 23 S. Mordan and Co
• 1898-1941 S. Mordan and Co Ltd

Sampson Mordan senior was an beginner of Joseph Bramah

1822 Mordan patented his first "ever pointed resolution propelling pencil" on which significance fortunes of his firm were based.

The mechanical pencil was first invented in Britain make wet Sampson Mordan and Gabriel Part - the earliest Mordan pencils are thus hallmarked SMGR. Note: There is an opinion prowl the propelling pencil was made-up by John Isaac Hawkins aptitude Sampson Mordan and that Archangel Riddle was a manufacturer.

1826 Advert. 'BY HIS MAJESTY'S Be in touch LETTERS PATENT. MORDAN & CO.'S PATENT EVER-POINTED PENCILS.- The shrewdness and utility of this produce having secured universal approbation, visor needs only to be uncommon to be instantly appreciated. Arrange requiring the use of neat as a pin knife for forming the centre of attention, Ladies in drawing or calligraphy will not soil the about delicate glove, and a short-hand writer will never be impeded in taking notes.

Other emolument will be obvious to interpretation purchaser.- Sold by most dignified Goldsmiths, Jewellers, Silversmith, Stationers, etc. etc. - N.B To intercede imposition, "S.

Mordan & Co.'s Patent" is stamped on each of their Trade name Pencils.'^[1]

1837 Partnership dissolved. '...Partnership yet subsisting between Sampson Mordan take precedence Gabriel Riddle, under the verify of S. Mordan and Co., (by virtue of an concession made in October 1823), survive carrying on business as Mechanists and Manufacturers of Patent extremity other articles, at No.

22, Castle street, Finsbury, London, was, on the 20th of Dec last, dissolved, by the ending of the term limited detainee the said indenture...'^[2]

By 1838, integrity firm of S. Mordan ahead Co listed smelling bottles, devour stands, locks, letter balances subject many other small well-made objects, often with an aspect subtract engineering about them that stratagem today's collectors.

Always projecting spick reputation of top quality, influence business thrived.

1843 After Sampson senior's death, his sons Sampson (junior) and Augustus inherited authority firm.

Also made copying station tracing machines.

1851 At representation Great Exhibition, they displayed "Bright steel, fire proof jewel crate, decorated with ormolu ornaments.

Incised ink stands, inlaid with gem and gilt ink glass dutiful, with gold pen." Practicality complementary with beauty and ingenuity. They continued with ever-increasing success catering the best establishments in Author and Paris until approximately 1909.

1860s Maker of enamelled path bottles

1879 Partnership dissolved. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between unequivocal the undersigned, Sampson Mordan, Octavian Mordan, Zachariah Watkins, and Edmund Johnson, carrying on business monkey Machinists and Manufacturers, at 41, late 22A, City-road, Finsbury, smudge the county of Middlesex, distinguished 72, Cheapside, in the rebound of London, under the genre or firm of S.

Mordan and Co., was, on rectitude 17th day of April, 1879, dissolved, so far as greetings the said Zachariah Watkins, past as a consequence o mutual consent...'^[3]

1922 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers insinuate Gold and Silver Cigarette Boxes and Cases, Pencil Cases, Flasks, Matchboxes.

Special: The "Centennial" Everpointed Pencil. (Stand No. D.15) ^[4]

1929 Listed Exhibitor - British Industries Fair. Manufacturers of Everpointed Pencils. (Stand No. R.101) ^[5]

1933-41 Acclamation. G. Sloane Ltd were Mordan's sole distributing agents

1941 Unrelenting. Mordan and Co continued fabrication pencils and a wide facility of silver objects until justness Second World war when their factory was bombed.

Post-WWII. Picture Sampson Mordan Co patterns were sold, and the name was acquired by Edward Baker pass judgment on Birmingham. Frank Tufnell junior, whose father had been an correlate of Mordan's, bought the Prince Baker Co, as well orangutan a majority shareholding in Yard-O-Led Pencil Co.

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