When the factory & stock were purchased by Boosey & Co, the operations were not immediately integrated, but were conducted as separate businesses for nearly six years. The Distin & Co stock books record numerous items 'sold' to Boosey & Co, and the Boosey & Co stock books from 1868 to 1874 record a number of items 'sold' to Distin & Co. There are very few sales in the Distin & Co stock books recorded to overseas customers, so it is probable that Boosey & Co (then at 24 and 28 Holles Street) quickly took over the exports of Distin instruments.
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Press cutting titled: The Horniman Museum at Forest Hill: The New Indian Curios.
object | ARC/HMG/PR/004/001/186
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Slide of a man carving a prayer block
object | ARC/BAL/002/002/012
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Photograph of the construction site of the Horniman Museum's West Hall with foundations being laid, 1933
object | ARC/HMG/PH/BD/003/002
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Black and white negative of collection of huts in fairly open space with few trees
object | ARC/GUP/003/027
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