IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/072
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: DYSTER, NALDER AND COMPANY
Date(s): 1802-1950
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 16 production units.
Name of creator(s): Dyster, Nalder and Co | hide, skin and horn brokers and leather factors
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Dyster, Nalder and Company were hide, skin and horn brokers and leather factors based from 1770-1880 at Leadenhall Market, and from 1880 successively at Crosby Square, Pepys Street (Seething Lane) and, finally (to 1960) at 85-86 London Wall, when the company was finally wound up.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of Dyster, Nalder and Company, comprising catalogues of sales of skins, hides, furs, horns, hair and tallow; and an out-letter book.
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ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Records arranged by MS number, assigned during cataloguing at the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section.
Conditions governing access:
Access by appointment only. Please contact staff.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
The main series of sales catalogues (Ms 10391) were given to Guildhall Library by the Company in 1959, the other sales catalogues (Ms 30493) were purchased by Guildhall Library in 1995 and the letterbook (Ms 35182) purchased in 2004. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: November 2010 to January 2011.