BCD Show & Tell Peacock CE Clifford & Co 110pc No 2 Obstinacy DSC05501
Martin & Frances's second show & tell item was this early 20thC push fit which bears all the hallmarks of a jigsaw manufactured by Peacock as contractors - a red mock croc box, side label 'The Great Picture Puzzle Craze' and red box seals, and a typical smooth Peacock cut. The label address dates it to 1911-1914.
CE Clifford & Co Ltd (Fine Art Publishers, 12 Bury St, St James' London, Tel no 1210 Mayfair) 110pc no 2 Obstinacy, 10x8in.
The image shows a recalcitrant donkey, laden with produce and ducks in its side panniers, stopped across train tracks resisting the girl's efforts to get it clear in the face of an oncoming train.
The National Gallery website gives information about the firm CE Clifford, whose founder was descended from sculptor John Charles Felix Rossi (grandfather), and grocer/oilman father.
C.E. Clifford worked as an artists’ colourman 1849-1876 and also dealt in photographic materials manufacturer 1856-1865,
1870 Clifford advertised as a colourman and additionally as a ‘carver, gilder, looking glass and picture framemaker’
picture restorer from 1877;
C.E. Clifford & Co from 1887, printsellers; after CE retired aged 66.
C.E. Clifford & Co Ltd 1909-1924, fine art publishers, printsellers, framemakers, picture restorers.
At 30 Piccadilly, London WC 1848-1887, 12 Piccadilly 1887-1892, 200 Piccadilly 1892-1894, 21 Haymarket 1895-1911, 12 Bury St, St James's 1911-1914, 3 Regent Place, Regent St 1914-1924.
C.E. Clifford & Co turned to print publishing, issuing prints 1887-1907 from the Clifford Gallery. It was carried on by William Batley (b. c.1853) until it was incorporated as C.E. Clifford & Co Ltd in 1909. It advertised as fine art publishers and printsellers and continued until voluntarily wound up in 1924. (Its activities as printsellers see Pamela Fletcher and Anne Helmreich (eds), The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London: 1850-1939, 2011, p.298.)
www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/directory-of-suppliers/c/
BCD Show & Tell Peacock CE Clifford & Co 110pc No 2 Obstinacy DSC05501
Martin & Frances's second show & tell item was this early 20thC push fit which bears all the hallmarks of a jigsaw manufactured by Peacock as contractors - a red mock croc box, side label 'The Great Picture Puzzle Craze' and red box seals, and a typical smooth Peacock cut. The label address dates it to 1911-1914.
CE Clifford & Co Ltd (Fine Art Publishers, 12 Bury St, St James' London, Tel no 1210 Mayfair) 110pc no 2 Obstinacy, 10x8in.
The image shows a recalcitrant donkey, laden with produce and ducks in its side panniers, stopped across train tracks resisting the girl's efforts to get it clear in the face of an oncoming train.
The National Gallery website gives information about the firm CE Clifford, whose founder was descended from sculptor John Charles Felix Rossi (grandfather), and grocer/oilman father.
C.E. Clifford worked as an artists’ colourman 1849-1876 and also dealt in photographic materials manufacturer 1856-1865,
1870 Clifford advertised as a colourman and additionally as a ‘carver, gilder, looking glass and picture framemaker’
picture restorer from 1877;
C.E. Clifford & Co from 1887, printsellers; after CE retired aged 66.
C.E. Clifford & Co Ltd 1909-1924, fine art publishers, printsellers, framemakers, picture restorers.
At 30 Piccadilly, London WC 1848-1887, 12 Piccadilly 1887-1892, 200 Piccadilly 1892-1894, 21 Haymarket 1895-1911, 12 Bury St, St James's 1911-1914, 3 Regent Place, Regent St 1914-1924.
C.E. Clifford & Co turned to print publishing, issuing prints 1887-1907 from the Clifford Gallery. It was carried on by William Batley (b. c.1853) until it was incorporated as C.E. Clifford & Co Ltd in 1909. It advertised as fine art publishers and printsellers and continued until voluntarily wound up in 1924. (Its activities as printsellers see Pamela Fletcher and Anne Helmreich (eds), The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London: 1850-1939, 2011, p.298.)
www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/directory-of-suppliers/c/