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Transcribe Wellcome
  • Introduction
  • Terminology and language
  • RESEARCHING THE MUSEUM & LIBRARY
    • Documentation Systems
      • Museum Accession Numbers
      • Old Registration System
      • New Registration System
      • Library Accessions
      • Library Shelfmarks
      • Paintings
      • Photographs
      • Prints and Drawings
    • Classification
      • Sections
      • Cultures
      • Materials
      • Collections Abbreviations
    • People
      • Alphabetical list of staff
        • Lander, Kathleen
        • Amoruso, Arthur
        • Barber-Lomax, John Walker
        • Barnard, Cyril Cuthbert
        • Bishop, W.J.
        • Borer, Mary Cathcart
        • Boscawen, William St Chad
        • Bourne, Henry
        • Britchford, W.J.
        • Brookes, Mr
        • Burgess, Renate
        • Burstein, S. Rosa
        • Carline, George R.
        • Chadburn, Mr
        • Chatterjee, B.
        • Chiang Yee
        • Clarke, Edwin
        • Comins, Mr
        • Cooper-Reade, J.B.
        • Cox, R.M.
        • Crellin, John K.
        • Dance, Enid
        • Daukes, S.H.
        • Davis, Walter
        • Dean, A.L.
        • Duncum (Pyecraft), Barbara
        • Dykes, R.
        • Earnshaw, C.A.
        • Freeman, E.J.
        • French-Sheldon, May
        • Gardner, S.B.
        • Gaskell, E.
        • Gaster, Theodor
        • Georgievsky, Catherine
        • Gibson, Miss
        • Haggis, Alec W.J.
        • Hewitt, Charles
        • Hipkins, G.J.
        • Holz, Dorothy
        • Hooper, D.
        • Huck, T.W.
        • Johnston-Saint, Peter (Captain)
        • Jones, Miss
        • Keighley, Mr
        • Kemp, P.M.
        • Kidd, R.H.
        • Lacaille, A. Donald
        • Lane, Tom
        • Lillico, Joan
        • Malcolm, Louis William Gordon
        • Mall, Paira
        • Marmoy, Charles
        • Michieli, John
        • Moorat, Samuel Arthur Joseph
        • Port, Harry
        • Powell, H.J.
        • Poynter, F.N.L.
        • Prideaux, W.R.B.
        • Rainsford-Hannay, Margaret
        • Raymont (Braunholtz), Joan
        • Rowbottom, Margaret
        • Sambon, Louis Westenra
        • Samson, Otto William
        • Shawe, J.
        • Shirreff, Frances Gordon
        • Sinel, Joseph William
        • Sizer, C.A.
        • Smith, Miss
        • Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander
        • Stow, Harry
        • Swinstead, A.E.H.
        • Thompson, Charles John Samuel
        • Underwood, Edwin Ashworth
        • Uribe, Julio (Major)
        • Webb, Mr
        • Welch
        • Wilkes, Mr
        • Winder, Marianne
      • Collecting Agents
        • Blackman, Winifred Susan
        • Bolinder, Gustav
        • Church Missionary Society
        • Jeffreys, Mervyn D.W.
      • Private Collectors
        • Amherst, William Tyssen-Amherst
        • Canaan, Tawfiq
        • Debes Davies, Rachel
        • Gorga, Evangelista
        • Hewlett, William
        • French-Sheldon, May
        • Iles, Isaac
        • Lovett, Edward
        • Moore-Guggisberg, Lillian Decima
    • Wellcome Places
      • Aldersgate Street
      • Beckenham
      • Bushey Hill Road
      • Crystal Palace Road
      • Dartford Works
      • Easley Mews
      • Henrietta Street
      • Marylebone High Street
      • Portman Square
      • Sans Walk
      • Stanmore
      • Stratford Mews
      • Wigmore Street
      • Willesden
    • Auction Houses
    • Wellcome Organisations
      • Burroughs Wellcome & Company (BW & Co.)
      • Epworth & Co.
      • Historical Medical Exhibition (HME)
      • Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research (WBSR)
      • Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories (WCRL)
      • Wellcome Foundation Ltd.
      • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (WHMM)
      • Wellcome Institute of/for the History of Medicine (WIHM)
      • Wellcome Museum of Medical Science (WMMS)
      • Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories (WPRL)
      • Wellcome Research Institution (WRI)
      • Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories (WTRL)
    • Dispersals
      • The Ten Distributions (1950s)
      • Science Museum Departments
    • Bibliography
  • TRANSCRIPTION GUIDELINES
    • Wellcome Transcribers' Group
    • Getting Started
    • Library Registers
    • Museum Flimsy Slips
    • PHO Accession Registers
    • CC Accessions - Cabinet Cards
    • Science Museum Transit Registers
    • Museum Accession Registers
  • Contributing to Transcribe Wellcome
    • Transcribers
    • Recipient Museums & Libraries
  • About the Transcribe Wellcome dataset
    • Dispersals
  • Project Management
    • Batch checking - Flimsy slips (A sequence)
    • Batch checking - Library Accession Registers
    • Itemising batches for TW import and catalogue descriptions
    • Importing itemisation batches
    • Checking & importing visual batches
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  1. RESEARCHING THE MUSEUM & LIBRARY

Auction Houses

Notes on auction catalogue annotation, early-mid 1920s (in WA/HMM/CO/Sub/204)

It was not uncommon for more than one buyer to attend a single sale. Each buyer was asked to mark up a copy of the catalogue with the 'purchaser of every item, together with the price paid, including other lots purchased by our own people'.

Wellcome's marked up copies of auction house sales catalogues are currently being digitised and should be available online shortly (expected by end 2021).

Common auction house abbreviations used on index cards and object labels

Abbreviation
Auction House

Bon

Bonhams

Ch

Christies

Deb

Debenham Stores

Fos

Foster

Glen

Glendining

H

Hurcomb

K.F.&R.

Knight, Frank & Rutley

P.&S.

Puttick & Simpson

P.S.&N.

Philips, Son & Neale

R.&F.

Robinson & Fisher

R.F.&H.

Robinson, Fisher & Harding

Soth

Sotheby's

St

Stevens

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