Thomas Furnival & Sons
FAILURE IN THE EARTHENWARE TRADE
LIABILITIES £60,000
On Saturday a petition of liquidation was filed in the Hanley County Court, on behalf of Messrs. Thomas Furnival and Sons, earthenware manufacturers of Cobridge, and flint grinders and dealers in potters' materials at Etruria Vale. The liabilities amount to £60,000. Messrs. Tomkinson and Furnival, of Burslem, are the solicitors; and Mr. Thos. Bullock, chartered accountant, Newcastle, is the receiver in the matter.
THOMAS FURNIVAL, Sen., THOMAS FURNIVAL, Jun., and SAMUEL BOURNE FURNIVAL, trading in copartnership as Thomas Furnival and Sons at Cobridge, Burslem, as earthenware manufacturers, and at Etruria Vale, Hanley as flint grinders and dealers in potters' materials; also the separate estates of Thomas Furnival, sen., Thomas Furnival, jun., and Samuel Furnival.
WORK AND WAGES
The operative potters of Messrs. Furnival and Sons, Cobridge, Hanley,
have struck work against a reduction in their wages, amounting in some cases to 15 per cent.
(Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser, Friday 12th October 1883)
The death is announced of Mr. James S. Robertson, who for nearly twenty five years was the respected and efficient representative in the United States of Furnivals Ltd., the well known potters of Cobridge ... about twenty years ago he undertook, as we have stated, the New York agency for the Cobridge house, which he has represented ever since. Mr. Robertsons's Office and Showrooms were at 96, Church Street, New York, and it is not too much to say he was one of the best known and most highly respected men in the city.