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1904 - Reilly agent in Hong Kong


Here is a 1904 mention of Reilly and the 295 Oxford Street address in the Directory and Chronicle of China, Hong Kong, Macao, Corea, Eastern Siberia, etc. - there were agents in the Far East - Lane, Crawford and Co., Hong Kong. So rhere was a Reilly catalog. Somewhere someone has a Reilly Catalog.

https://books.google.com/books?id=WYxEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1125&lpg=PA1125&dq=catalogue+at+our+agents,+lane,+crawford&source=bl&ots=POUcdPKrI4&sig=7BI-h_EOrWvqKIYU0lyM25o3qYg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjEzejIiKLZAhXQct8KHR7lDcIQ6AEINjAB#v=onepage&q=catalogue%20at%20our%20agents%2C%20lane%2C%20crawford&f=false




Lane Crawford was founded in 1850 by two Scots In Hong Kong as a sort of Macyi's type buy it all store. It now is into luxury goods all over China. I may write to see if they still have that catalog in their records someplace. Or they might be in the British Library.

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1869-1898 - Reilly agent in America


And here is the American Agent for Reilly for 15 years...Joseph C. Grubb of Philadelphia - ad at the time of the 1876 centennial exposition in Philadelphia:



And since I live near DC and have access to Library of Congress - it just might have some of the Reilly Catalogs..or at least a Grubb one.see below:

"Manufacturers' trade catalogs are a source of much valuable and useful information for those interested in various decorative arts history, the history of design, and trends of various industries. Catalogs chronicle the development of different styles and tastes of the public and can be used to identify articles as well as to provide information on specifications, prices, and types of material used in construction. For the most part, however, trade catalogs have not fared well in libraries. Because of the catalogs' size and frequency of issue, many libraries are unable or reluctant to collect them. For those libraries that are interested, trade catalogs often are very difficult to obtain.
Fortunately, the Library of Congress has a representative collection of trade catalogs that are dispersed throughout the general collections. But because they are listed in the card catalog under many different headings, users interested in accessing them must resort to several strategies in order to find them.

This guide has been prepared to assist those users. The emphasis is on catalogs of 19th and early 20th century American craftsmen and manufacturers. There is a short bibliography on the history of manufacturing in the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries listing useful sources of information on a particular type of manufacture or on manufactures in a particular geographical area. Also listed are some catalogs from the Library of Congress collections for the following types of manufactures: furniture, silver, glassware, and pottery.

Of the sources listed in this guide, almost all are part of the general collections and are either on reference in the Main Reading Room or need to be requested from the stacks. The microform collections are to be requested in the Microform Reading Room. If you need assistance in locating the catalogs included in this guide, please consult a reference librarian."

Last edited by Argo44; 09/11/18 01:08 PM.

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