MULLER, CHRISTOPHER, COMMISSION AGENT

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 ACC/2066
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: MULLER, CHRISTOPHER, COMMISSION AGENT
Date(s)	: 1871-1923
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.63 linear metres
Name of creator(s)	: Müller | Christopher | d 1915 | Commission Agent, dealer in furs and pelts

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Christopher Müller arrived in England from Wertheim in Germany, via Paris, in or before 1886. He started work in March 1886 in London as a book-keeper and correspondent with the British Woollen Warehouse Corporation, and in 1895 moved to Kuetgens Bros, woollen merchants in a similar capacity. He left that situation in 1898. It is not clear what he was doing between 1898 and 1912 but his tax returns indicate that he was living in London. In May 1912 he started a business as a Commission Agent, dealing chiefly in furs and pelts, and trading with France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Russia. He died in 1915. The business seems to have been carried on for a short while by his son Fritz (Frederick) Müller, a publisher, but finally ceased about 1921.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Business papers of Christopher Müller and son, dealers in furs and pelts, 1871-1923, including testimonials, correspondence and letter books, financial accounts, stock books, tax returns and property lease.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

ACC/2066/01 to ACC/2066/011.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright 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:

Gifted in 1985

Allied Materials

Related material:

Other family papers are also deposited at the London Borough of Brent Local History Library, The Grange Museum, Neasden Lane, London NW10 1QB.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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:
July to October 2009