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A topic for recording information regarding the old established firm of Kirby, Beard and Co.





Established in 1743, Kirby, Beard and Co. evolved from being a Gloucester based pin, needle and fish-hook maker to high-end Parisian jewellers.

If you have any details of the above company, advertisements, examples of their work, markings, etc., anything that you are willing to share, then here's the place to post it.

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Kirby Beard & Co. - Birmingham - 1883

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Kirby Beard & Co. - Birmingham - 1843

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Regarding Queen Adelaide:

Kirby, Beard, and Kirby, Cannon-street, City, her Majesty's Pin and Needle Manufacturers, displayed a most brilliant illumination in honour of the day, which consisted of her Majesty's initials in a splendid shield, surmounted with a Royal diadem, and a profusion of wreaths, stars, &c.

Source: The Morning Post - 25th February 1832

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Kirby Beard & Co. Ltd. - Paris - 1916

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Kirby Beard & Co. - Paris - 1937

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DEATHS

KING. - On the 18th inst., after a very short illness, Peter King, for nearly thirty years a faithful servant of Messrs. Kirby, Beard, and Co.; respected by all who knew him.

Source: The Birmingham Daily Post - 22nd August 1882

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Kirby, Beard & Co. Ld. - Paris - 1901

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Kirby, Beard & Co. - Paris - 1902

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Kirby, Beard & Co. Ltd. - Birmingham - 1936

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......But not before I mention a discovery a friend of mine has just told me about who runs Kirby Beards, if you know Paris, you may remember that very swell shop in the Rue Scribe, just opposite the American Express. He has brought back from Germany some little contraptions which they call "scent-o-laters," which are elaborate and beautiful paste clips and two-piece brooches, fitted with an inner phial, in which you put your favourite perfume which evaporates, at just the right degree of strength, for about a fortnight!

Source: Table Talk - 23rd September 1937

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PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED

Kirby, Beard & Co., Cannon-street and Gloucester, pinmakers; as far as regards P.J. Kirby.

Source: Leeds Mercury - 7th March 1846

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Kirby Beard & Co. Ltd. - Birmingham - 1922

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Kirby Beard & Co. Ld. - Birmingham - 1897

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Kirby, Beard & Co. Ld. - Paris - 1907

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Kirby Beard & Co. Ltd. - Paris - 1915

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Kirby, Beard & Co. Ltd. - Paris - 1915

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Kirby, Beard & Co. Ltd. - Paris - 1915

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Kirby, Beard & Co Ld - Paris - c.1916

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An interior image of the 5, Rue Auber premises of Kirby, Beard & Co. Ltd. in Paris:



This image was published in 1909.

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